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cA REVIEW for 189^-6 of the Commercial and Financial 

Resources; the Railroad Interests 
and Transportation Facilities; the 
Educational, Religious and Hygienic 
Advantages, of Pettis County and 



SEDALIA, MO. 



'The Truth is Good Enough." 



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BY 1. MacD. DEMUTH, 

Author of "The History of Sedalia," "Manufactories of Sedalia," and Statistical 

and Building Reviews in 1881-2-3 for the "Sedalia Democrat." 



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SEDALIA. MO. 

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TO THE READERS. 

The first word the compiler wishes to say to his readers abroad? 
and to the public spirited gentlemen of Sedalia who showed their con- 
fidence that the writer would write "something that was worth some- 
thing" by subscribing for copies of this Review in advance of its pub- 
lication, is: 

THIS IS nobody's boom BOOK. 

Having intimately known Sedalia from the day it was 
laid out, and having lived and labored as a journalist a 
good part of his life among its people, it is natural that the 
writer should have a hearty desire to say a good word for a good people 
and a good town; and most clearly understanding the merits of his sub- 
ject, to treat it in his own way, without orders, suggestions, dictation 
or persuasion from any body else. Having conceived the plan, the 
writer has done all the work, taken all the financial risk of publication, 
and if he gets paid for his experience, skill and labor, all right; if he 
does not he can grin and bear it, as he has many other ills of life. 

It is an easy matter for a man of intelligence and a trained writer 
to fill pages with "glittering generalities" and fulsome praise, hearsay 
and buncombe. As a substitute for useless, powerless "gush," a num- 
ber of cold facts are herein produced to show the character, mind and 
heart of our people by showing what kind of a city they have built in 
thirty years on a trackless prairie. 

It has been the chief aim of the compiler not to fill as many pages 
as possible; not to "kill space" or make "a great showing" of paper 
and type, but, on the contrary, to give only so much of detail as is 
necessary to make the figures understood; to give as many solid, s'lg- 
gestive, interesting and essential facts as possible in as few words as 
possible. That, he believes, is what practical buinsess men look for in 
a pamphlet of this character. And note well, that there is not a line of 
"paid matter" in the text devoted to statements and figures. 

The plain truth about this city is good enough. 

A great deal of labor and care has been devoted to the preparation 
of these few pages, but those who look for any "booming, puffing and 
blowing" will be disappointed. 

The 38th General Assembly, on Feb. 20, 1895, submitted for rati- 
fication by the voters of the State^ — at the general election in Nov., 
1896 — an amendment to the state constitution, providing for the re- 
moval of the state capital from Jefferson City to Sedalia. The amend- 
ment requires that grounds and all new state buildings be provided in 
Sedalia and furnished to the state free of cost, and that the state be at 
no expense whatever in the removal of the seat of government. Security 
is to be given — to be approved by the governor — that all the terms and 
provisions of the amendment will be carried out; and now arrangements 



are being perfected for depositing all securities that may be required, 
as soon as the governor fixes the amount deemed necessary. 

At the present writing, Nov. 25, 1895, it is the opinion of the writer 
and the most intelligent citizens, that all that is required will he done; 
and that the vote of the state will be for capital removal. 

The Compiler. 




JAMES GLASS LAMINE STREET BUILDING. (Value, $20,000.) 



PETTIS COUNTY. 

Pettis county is, with the exception of a small "offset" in the south- 
east corner, almost a perfect parallelogram, 29 miles from north to 
south; 24 miles from east to west; contains 668 square miles, or a total 
area of 427,520 acres. By the census of i8go the population of the 
county was 31,151, but from reliable data secured since the gathertng 
of census figures, the number of inhabitants may be safely placed at 
35,000. Of this area 380,000 acres is good, tillable land, the remain- 
der being fine timber and rocky pasture land or stream beds. 

TOPOGRAPHY. 

The surface of the country is rolling prairie, interspersed with 
wooded bluffs and narrow bottoms along the streams. The elevation 
of Sedalia in the center of the county is 927 feet above sea level. 

STREAMS. 

The county is traversed from west- to east by eleven streams, creeks 
and branches: Blackwater, Big Muddy, Heath's creek, Beaver Dam, 
Brushy and Turkey creeks on the north of Sedalia; and by Flat creek, 
Spring Fork, Camp Branch and Elk Fork in the southern portion. 
The two largest streams. Big Muddy on the north and Flat creek on 
the south, run during the entire year, except during periods of severe 
drouth; and at all times contain a series of pools from 100 feet to one 
mile in length, from 25 to 100 feet in width, and from three to twelve 
feet in depth. The banks of all streams are skirted by timber. Through 
the intelligent efforts of the State Fish Commissioner a number of 
streams and private ponds have been well stocked with fish, in addition 
to those indigenous to the streams. From the bottom lands along the 
streams the ground rises abruptly into wooded, rocky bluffs from 25 to 
300 feet in height, sloping down toward the prairie into plateaus, and 
then sinking gradually to the prairie level. On various portions of the 
streams the bluff scenery is as rugged and picturesque as in New York 
or Virginia, and yet from the highest points of vantage one may see 
the rich prairie land, rolling away on either side for a distance of at 
least ten miles. There is still much game. Rabbits, squirrels, opossums 
and coons being abundant, and a fair number of wild turkeys. Ducks 
are numerous in season all over the county, as well as quail, plover 
and snipe. 

TIMBER. 

The area of good timber is about one-twelfth of the total area. 
With the exception of beech, pine and hemlock, every variety of timber 
indigenous to this latitude in the United States, grows in the county. 
As to its size, nearly all of it will produce cord wood and rail timber, 
much of it beam timber for house frames, and in the best portions 
walnut and oak trees will cut from 15 inches to three feet "over the 
stump." 

The climate is healthful, there being no stagnant pools, very wet 



bottoms or marsh land in the county. During the winter of 1894-5 from. 
December i to April i, 1895, there were only 33 days when the ther- 
mometor marked zero, or 20 days when it was below, and this was an 



average wmter season. 



SOIL. 



The soil on the prairies is from 20 to 40 inches in depth; in the 
bottoms and timber, black, sandy loam interspersed with patches of 
mulatto soil that is especially adapted to the culture of tobacco. The 
whole county is underlaid with limestone, and water can be procured 
almost anywhere at a depth of from 25 to 75 feet. Wells with wind mill 
pumps are on almost every large farm. 

CHIEF PRODUCTS. 

The chief cereal products are corn, wheat oats, flaxseed and ha)' 
Castor beans, millet, Hungarian grass, field beans, sorghvim cane, tobacco, 
broom corn make fine yields. During the season of 1891 the estimated 
product of grain was 957,210, but this season, 1895, the product, 
from the best information obtainable, will, doubtless, reach over 
one million bushels. Statistics of 1892 estimate shipments of grain 
from six railroad stations in Pettis county and one just on the edge, at 
1,275,000 bushels. 

VEGETABLES. 

All those usually produced in the Central Western states are 
raised in large quantities. Irish potatoes vary, but in good seasons 
are immense producers. Sweet potatoes are an unfailing crop. No 
state in the West can surpass in quality, quantity and size the garden 
vegetables raised in this county. 

FRUITS. 

Apples, pears, peaches, grapes, cherries, blackberries, raspberries 
and strawberries are largely cultivated and are superior in size, quan- 
tity, flavor and amount of yield. One of the finest nurseries in the 
West is located in this county, its products taking the bulk of premiums 
at the St. Louis fair. During the past fifteen years the farmers and 
many residents in villages and towns have devoted especial effors to 
the production of these fruits. The writer knows of one orchard of 10 
acres which produced one season 3,500 bushels of apples. 

GRASSES. 

Blue grass is as rich and abundant as in the famous Kentucky re- 
gion. It has wiped out the prairie grass naturally. Timothy meadows 
send forth large quantities of baled hay, 40,000 bales being shipped in 
1894. Clover needs to be sowed with care, but when well set makes a 
wonderful growth. Cattle do well on bluegrass until the middle of 
January. Much of the land which has been longest under the plow is 
now resting in clover. 



LIVE STOCK. 

From pigeons up to swift race horses and mighty beeves and 
swine, the country produces the best. In horses, cattle, hogs, sheep 
and fowls all the best breeds are raised in the largest numbers. John 
R. Gentry, the famous pacer, was bred and raised in the county. One 
of the finest boars in the United States was raised in the county, and 
{he World's Fair premium jack is owned by a Pettis county man. 

COUNTY ROADS, 

Though mostly of natural soil are well graded and drained, kept in 
good repair and the streams are spanned by good modern iron and 
wooden bridges. 

There are in the county over the principal streams, 34 iron bridges, 
ranging in cost from $500 to ;^4,ooo, making the total approximate 
value of the iron bridges now in the county $75,000. The largest 
wooden bridge cost $6,000. There are numerous smaller wooden 
bridges the value of which can not be readily estimated. 

FARM IMPROVEMENTS AND IMPLEMENTS 

Are of the highest order. The houses and barns are of frame and 
brick and well furnished. The latest improved machinery and imple- 
ments are used, from the hand corn planter up to the steam traction 
tresher. 

POSTOFFICES. 

There are in the county 33 postoffices, more than half of them be- 
ing offices of daily delivery on the lines of railroad. 

TOWNS AND VILLAGES. 

Lamonte, 12 miles west of Sedalia on the main line of the Mis- 
souri Pacific railroad is the largest and most flourishing town in the 
county outside of Sedalia. It has a population of from 700 to 800, aud 
a bank. "The Record," a well conducted and prosperous weekly 
newspaper, all kinds of retail stores well stocked, good sidewalks, resi- 
dent physicians, 3 church edifices and congregations, a $3,000 brick 
public school building and a frame building which seats igo pupils. 
Round trip ticket to Sedalia is 65 cents. This is as complete a town 
as can be seen anywhere. 

Green Ridge, 12 miles southwest of Sedalia on the Missouri, Kan- 
sas and Texas railway, has a population of from 400 to 500, several 
well stocked general stores, drug store, a bank, a flouring mill, resident 
physicians, 5 church edifices and congregations, a frame public school 
building 165x70 feer to accommodate 200 pupils, a commercial and 
general school, and "The Local News,' a wide awake weekly newS' 
paper. A rich country surrounds it. 

Smithton, 8 miles east of Sedalia on the main line of 
the Missouri Pacific railroad, has a population of from 
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pupils, a wagon shop and a number of general stores. 

Houstonia, 15 miles north of Sedalia on the Missouri Pacific branch 
between Sedalia and Kansas City, has a population of 300, a bank, a 
lumber yard, a drug store, a number of first-class general stores, a 
public school building for 150 pupils, three churches. Large quan- 
titie I f live stock and grain are shipped from this point. 

Hughesville, 10 miles north of Sedalia on the Missouri Pacific 
branch to Kansas City, has a population of 100, two church edifices, 
a small public school building, Odd fellows hall, two general stores, 
a drug store, a lumber yard, grain elevator, two blacksmith and wagon 
shops. Much grain and live stock are shipped from it. 

Georgetown, three miles north of Sedalia, on the Missouri Pacific 
branch to Kansas City, has a population of 250, three churches, a 
large public school, a dairy and cheese factory and fruit gardens. 

Dresden, 10 miles west of Sedalia on the Missouri Pacific main 
line, has a population of 100, a public school, 2 churches and 2 stores. 

Longwood, 16 miles northeast of Sedalia, has a population of 
about 100, a public school for 100 pupils, 2 churches, a Masonic hall, 
drug store and general store, wagon and blacksmith shop. 

Camp Branch, 8 miles southwest of Sedalia on the Missouri, Kan- 
sas and Texas, has 40 population, store nnd postoffice. 

Beaman, 7 miles northeast of Sedalia on the Missouri, Kansas 
and Texas railroad, has a- population of 50, a store and postoffice, etc, 

Siegel, 20 miles northwest of Sedalia, has two churches, a wagcn 
shop and postoffice. 

Ionia City, 16 miles southwest of Sedalia, has 150 people, 2 stores 
and a postoffice. All the above towns have postoffices. 

COUNTY SCHOOLS. 

The total number of public school buildings in the county, as 
given by G. W. Driskell, county superintendent, is 103; estimated 
value, $197,000. Enumeration of pupils of school age, 6 to 20 years, 
in the county: White males, 4,481; white females, 4,175; total, 8,656. 
Colored people cf school age: Males, 514; females, 473; total, 987. 
Total of white and colored for 1895 is 9,643. 

The items embracing the teachers' fund is as follows: 

State fund by auditor's warrant in 1894 $ 8,236 54 District tax $36,748 76 

Interest from county fund in 1894 2,23449 Tuition fees ; 611 67 

Interest trom townsliip fund in 1894 895 50 

Railroad tax 4,763 00 Total $53,492 96 

The building fund receipts amount to ^30,906.95. Grand total re- 
ceipts, $84,399.91. 

The expenditures are as follows: 

For teachers' wages $65,638 44 The amount of the permanent county 

Incidental expenses 13.414 95 school fund is 37.644 16 

For building purposes _ 15,31+ 86 Amount of township achool funds 24,981 34 

Total expenditures 91,36823 Total school funds of Pettis county 62,625 5° 

Cash on hand July i, 1895. as shown at set- Amount receivud from fines, penalties, for- 

tlemenl with county treasurer. «z.953 26 feltnres, estrays and swamp lands 1,176 8» 



This added to the permanent county school fund gives 563, 802. 37 
as the total expenditures for the public schools for the year. 

ASSESSED VALUE OF PROPERTY, 1895. 

Real estate — Farm land and town lots, $7,382,446. 

Personal property — Horses, ^322,220; mules, ^101,615; asses and 
jennets, $6,999; cattle, $325,863; sheep, $10,345; hogs, $71,220. Total 
assessment, $9,699,564. 

As property this year was assessed for taxation at only 40 per cent 
of its commercial value, the real value will be $24,248,910, 

COUNTY FREIGHT FIGURES. 

Lamonte — Shipments for the year ending October 15, 1895: Live 
stock, carloads, loi; grain, carloads, 172; hay, car loads, 43. Total 
car loads shipped, 316. 

Hughesville — Car load shipments for the year from October i, 1894, 
to October i, 1895: Live stock, 352 cars; grain, 49 cars; hay, 21 cars. 
Total car load shipments, 422. 

Smithton — Shipments for one year: Live stock, 72 cars; grain, 12 
cars; apples, 10 cars; hay, i car, agricultural implements, i car; lum- 
ber, I car. Total, 97 cars. Also 153,087 pounds of freight in less 
than car load lots. Freight received: Lumber, 26 cars; coal, 8 cars; 
salt, 4 cars; household goods, 2 cars; wire, 2 cars; barrels, 3 cars; 
cattle, 2 cars; total, 47 cars. Also received 473,998 pounds of freight 
in less than car load lots. Total receipts for tickets, $1,205. 

Beaman, on the M., K, & T., for one year to November i, 1895; 
Live stock, 140 cars; grain, 10 cars; other products, 30,805 pounds. 

Houstonia, on the Lexington branch, to November i, 1895; Live 
stock, 173 cars; grain, 74 cars; hay, 2 cars; of other farm products, 
etc., 88,542 pounds. 

Total car load shipments as enumerated above 1,254 cars. From 
Green Ridge, the second largest shipping point in the county, no fig- 
ures could be procured from the local station agent. 

On October i, 1595, State Labor Commissioner Merriwether issued 
his official map, showing the "surplus products of each county in Mis- 
souri for the year 1894." These figures, bear in mind, do not repre- 
sent the "total products of each county," but the products shipped off 
and sold outside of each county. The following are the labor commis- 
sioner's figures for Pettis county in 1894: 

Cattle, 17,052. Flour, 22,088 barrels. 

Horses and mules, 1,456. Ship stuff, 150,000 pounds, 

Hogs, 31,895. Flax, 210,000 pounds. 

Sheep 2,350. Tobacco, 5,926 pounds. 

Mixed live stock, 12 cars. Potatoes. 474 bushels. 

Wheat, 136,200 bushels. Apples, 3,666 bushels. 

Corn, 102,060 bushels. Broom corn, 15 car loads. 

Oats, 70,400 bushels. Wool, 25,000 pounds. 



Butter. 11,503 pounds. 
Eggs, 320,130 dozen. 



Mixed, 700 bushels. 

Total grain, 309,360 bushels. 

Hay, 40,160 bales. 

Poultry, 570.602 pounds; feathers, 15,100 pounds; hides, 1,185,- 
596 pounds; junk, 150.000 pounds, lime, 300 barrels; cross ties, 14,000; 
logs, 20,000 feet; lumber, 260,000 feet. 

This in a general way, is a description of the county which gives 
' home support to the "Queen City of the Praries." 




1. G. CASSIDT'S B JILDING, (Valua, $33,000, 



SEDfllilfl. 

Location, Area, Population, Hygienic Advantages, W^ater Supply, 

R. R. Facilities, Street R. R., Illumination, Commercial 

Statistics, Municipal Figures, Educational And 

Religious Advantages, Etc., Etc. 



Sedalia is located within two and a half miles of the exact center of 
the state, six hours from St. Louis on the east and three hours by rail 
from Kansas City. Mo. , on the west. The city limits form an exact square, 
two and a half miles on each side, and covers an area of about 4,000 
acres. By the census of i8go the population was 14,800. Since the 
taking of the census the increase in inhabitants has been rapid, and ac- 
cording to the city directory prepared in 1895 carefully and conscien- 
tiously, the population was fully 20,000. The site of the city is a high 
roll in the prairie, the court house being 909.45 feet above the sea 
level. Within the city limits are the beds of two small streams, which 
give a natural drainage on the north, west and south, and water runs 
from about the center of the city in all directions. Two miles and a 
half north is a large stream, the Big Muddy, with heavily timbered 
shores, and three miles south is Flat creek and forest land, where is 
located the reservoir and water works pumping plant. There are no 
stagnant pools of water in or near the city to breed disease. 

The soil beneath the city is a rich, black loam, underlaid with 
clay and limestone rock. The nature of the soil renders the construc- 
tion of streets, the digging for foundations and sewers and the excava- 
tions for gas and water pipes easy and cheap. There are no heavy 
grades anywhere within the city limits. This facilitates rapid move- 
ment of the electric cars. 

In the resident portions of the city the streets and yards are gen- 
erously shaded by myriads of elm and maple trees, anywhere from 5 to 
35 years old. On a number of the resident streets, so large and nu- 
merous are the trees that scarcely a ray of sunlight strikes the sidewalks 
for distances varying from three blocks to three-fourths of a mile. 
Grass, flowers, vines and trees are abundant everywhere; and fine, level 
paved streets, neat cottages embowered in vines and shade, large, 
handsome, costly modern mansions, with spacious grounds; nume-rous 
fine stone and brick church edifices, school and public buildings and 
splendid modern business blocks render this one of the most beautiful 
and home-like cities in the West. It is a paradise for the lovers of 
horseback riding, driving and the devotees of the pneumatic wheel- 



Healthfulness of location and beauty of surroundings is one of the 
grand essentials to the growth of a city and to the comfort and health 
of its denizens. Since the discovery and explanation of that grand 
theory, the origin of diseases from microbes or bacteria, which is as 
plain and well understood and recognized today, not only by the med- 
ical profession, but by the masses of the people, as the multiplication 
table, the immense importance of cleanliness and good drainage in a 
, city is emphasized an hundred fold. Sedalia possesses these two great 
essentials of health. 

SEWERAGE SYSTEM. 

In addition to the natural drainage and the surface drainage by 
paved streets and alleys, Sedalia has a splendid sewerage system which 
carries from the city all matter deleterous to health. In the most 
thickly settled portions of the city, business and resident, there is one 
grand main sewer of brick and cement, running from near the business 
center west, thence northwest for a distance of one mile and a half to a 
natural stream bed. This main sewer is eight feet and four feet in di- 
ameter. On the streets running north and south, and at right angles 
with the main sewer, are lateral sewers, connecting with it. These 
sewers are of stone pipe from two to four feet in diameter, covering an 
area of 80 blocks, with a total length of about 24,000 feet. •• 

Through nearl}' the center of the business portion of the town, 
running in a genetal northern direction and connecting with the east 
and west main sewer, is a second brick sewer, four feet in diameter, and 
about 1,600 feet in length. In addition to this there are numerous 
private sewers and drain pipes flowing into the main system. In the 
suburbs, skirting the city on all sides, the natural drainage is almost 
perfect. Plans are now being perfected and work will soon be begun 
on a main brick sewer, which will afford perfect sanitation and drain- 
age to an area of about 200 acres in another important district. A san- 
itary officer of the city is constantly on the watch and rigidly enforces 
the removal of all manure, slops, paper, and other garbage from street 
ways, alleys and back yards and surface outhouses. Such a system of 
drainage, natural and artificial, with an abundance of water flowing 
through it, consequently lessens the danger an hundred fold of those 
henchman of death, typhoid fever and pneumonia, diphtheria and a 
host of malarial diseases. 

WATER SUPPLY. 

Sedalia has a water supply, all the appurtenances thereof and 
apparatus necessary to place it before the people, so that 6,000,000 gal- 
lons per day could be furnished the consumers tor 300 successive days, 
though not a drop of rain should fall in months In fact, the supply 
now and the facilities for furnishing it are amply sufficient for a city of 
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tion with our water works system is larger than that of Croton Lake, 
which furnishes New York City with water. 

THE WATER WORKS COMPANY, 

Which is a private corporation, (under an iron clad contract with the 
city for 20 years) is bonded for ^500,000, but only $250,000 of the 
bonds have been issued. This magnificent supply of water means health 
cleanliness and the almost unlimited extension of our manufacturing 
enterprises., as coal is abundant all around the city, and is even now 
delivered to the largest consumers at $1.40 per ton. The railroad ma- 
chine shops and locomotives alone consume thousands of gallons per 
day. 

THE RESERVE RESERVOIR. 

Lake Tebo, situated 12 miles southwest of Sedalia, on the Spring 
Fork creek, which receives the bulk of its supply from numerous 
springs and is a branch of the larger stream, Flat creek, is the Storage 
Reservoir, and has a capacity of 1,800,000,000 U. S. gallons of water. 
It is now connected with the Pumping Station and settling reservoirs 
at Flat creek, three miles south of the city, by this stream, but the 
company has in contemplation the construction of a large and perma- 
nent artificial conduit to conduct the lake supply to the settling reser- 
voirs. The fine reservoirs at the pumping station have a capacity of 
75.000,000 gallons. The capacity of the pumping engines is 9,000,000 
gallons per 24 hours; and the present consumption of water is 1,500,- 
000 gallons per day. All the water is thoroughly filtered through 
Hyatt filters at the pumping station, where there are 18 acres of settling 
reservoirs 12 feet deep and with a capacity of 75,000,000 gallons. 
There are at present 35 miles of water mains and pipes from 6 inches 
to 18 inches in diameter. There are two steel stand pipes in the city, 
each 15 feet in diameter and 127 feet, 10 inches in height. There are 
about 1,500 regular water services and the water is always clear, pure 
and wholesome. 

One element of most vital importance is that the region from 
which the water drains is an exceptionally clean and healthful one, and 
in addition to this, the beds of the supplying streams are so narrow and 
the fall of the land towards them so sharp that with every copious rain 
the stream beds are practically flushed and cleaned out. There are 
few cities in the West of 100,000 inhabitants which have a safer, purer 
cheaper or more abundant supply of water than Sedalia. 

SANITARY MEASURES. 

Sedalia is a city of the third class. In addition to the officers cus- 
tomary in incorporated towns, the city has a regularly paid sanitary 
officer, who looks after such matters, as well as the condition of the 
poor, the distribution of medicines and material necessities. There is 
a paid police force consisting of a chief and nine policemen. 



fIRE DEPARTMENT. 

The fire department is equipped with two of the best quality steam 
fire engines and hose carts. There are 150 fire hydrants conveniently 
located throughout the city, from which hose, without the aid of the 
engine, will put water upon any but the few tallest buildings in the 
city. There is a chief and nine paid firemen and seven splendid, well 
trained horses. The fire department headquarters and calaboose, city 
hall and market and the East Sedalia brick engine house are valued 
at ^26,156. 

MISCELLANEOUS FACTS. 

Fair grounds, race track, parks. The city has two finely improved 
parks, containing an area of 75 acres, both reached by electric railway. 
A portion of the 40 acres of the Sicher park is devoted to the fair 
grounds and buildings, and south of this park is a one-mile kite-shaped 
track. Forest park is two miles south of the city. 

The city has twelve and one-half miles of electric street railway. 

There are nine and one-half miles of street with granitoid or fine 
limestone curbing and necessary catch basins, the materials used being 
asphaltum, cedar blocks, Telford, vitrified brick and a little'macadam. 
Sidewalks are chiefly of stone, brick and granitoid. 

The Missouri and Kansas Telephone company has in use in the 
city 300 instruments and about 250 miles of wire. 

The Western Union and the Postal Cable Telegraph companies 
both have large offices in the city. For more minute details see other 
portions of this work. 

QUERIES AND ANSWERS. 

Is this city made up of progressive, public spirited people? Ex- 
amine the details of her business enterprises. 

Does this community believe in morality and religion? Run your 
eye over the figures showing the amount of money invested in church 
edifices and the expenditures for religious purposes. 

Do Sedalians believe in and properly estimate the advantages of 
good education? A glance at the character of our public and private 
schools and the money spent upon intellectual training will answer 
that question. 

Do our people believe in and enjoy innocent intellectual and social 
pleasures and pastimes and good living? Refer to her expenditures for 
the necessaries of life, the parks and theaters, the bicycles in use; the 
bands, musical and elocutionary schools, the social clubs and benevo- 
lent associations. Though the motto of our people is: -'Business first 
and pleasure afterwards," they show by their habits and customs that 
"the pleasure afterwards" is as essential to a perfect life as the "busi- 
ness before." 




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THE DAILY, CAPITAL OFFICE. 



MUNICIPAL STATISTICS. 

Personal Property and Real Estate Assessment: 

Real Estate valuation, 1895 $3,117,250 

Personal propert}' 721,280 

Banks, Trust Cos. 'etc 358, 74^ 

Merchants' stocks 232,986 

Total valuation $4,430,356 

At $1.40 on the $100 this produces a revenue of $62,024.93. 

COMPARISON OF CITY FIGURES. 

The assessed value of real estate and personal property in 1881 
was 2,373,124; in 1882, $2,681,310; in 1885, $3,377,368. 

This shows a total increase of the taxable weaith in the city during 
a period of ten years of $1,052,986. 

CITY LICENSE FIGURES. 

Number of licenses issued and the yearly revenue from the same; 

Revenue. 

Merchants' licenses, 200 $ 4,000 

Merchants' advalorem,$258,8o5 3.627 

Saloons, 31 •- 12,400 

Manufacturers, 50 5° 

Hotels, 8 414 

Livery stables, 5 100 

Wagons, drays, carriages, 61 454 

Boarding houses, 13 13° 

Billiasd halls, 2, 150 

Wood and coal yards, 4 250 

Butchers, 9 225 

Shows, peddlers. May i to Nov. i 289 

Insurance Cos., 64 1,600 

Ticket broker, i 10 

Ice wagons, 4 ^20 

Photographers, 5 °o 

Street sprinkler, 1 ^° 

Oil wagons, 3 = "O 

Real estate agents, 19 3S0 

Restaurants, 20 300 

Opera house, i 5° 

Loan agents, 4 ^ °° 

Auctioneers ^° 

Feed and sale stables, 5 5° 

Pawnbroker, i ^5 

Billposter, i 5° 

Total licenses 24, 985 

City taxes 62,024 

Total City Revenue $87,009 

The above is the total revenue set aside, and is to be spent as fol- 
lows: 

For interest and coupon tax, ;$i7,72i; for general expenses, ;?26,- 



581; sinking fund, ;$4,43o; free reading room, $2,215; public sewer sys- 
tem, $11,075. Total, $62,022, 

Semi-annual expenses from January i, 1895, to July i, 1895, 
(without odd cents, as above): 

Water works, $4,581; fire department, ^3,603; officers' salaries, 
§4,561; police department, $4,208; contingent expenses, $13,580; char- 
ity, $882; public lighting, $3,260- Total, $34,945. 

On the supposition that the last half of the year will require the 
same sum, the total expenditures for 1895 will be $69,890. 

PUBLIC SEWE1< EXPENDITURES. 

The following are expenditures for public sewers, paid for by tax bills 
against property owners, up to to-day. There were private sewer com- 




I •JMA/HZr-CD. CHICASCT 

THE ILGENFRITZ BLOCK. (Value, $50,000.) 



panies in the city, so that this does not represent the cost of the entire 
artificial sewerage of the city: 

Main sewer, 8 ft diam . .$38,561 05 6th " 

ist district 1,490 80 7th " 

2nd " 2,031 86 8th " 

3rd " 71840 6th " 

4th " 4,777 10 loth " 

5th " 6,425 70 



28,877 16 

1,071 05 

1,165 46 

159 40 

343 38 



Total 



^2,423 36 



PAVED STREETS. 

All opened, unpaved streets, within the city limits are well graded 
and drained and curbed. So well have they been handled, rolled and 
packed down by travel, that they are as good, for all practical pur- 
poses, as the paved streets, except during periods of long-continued 
and extremely wet weather. The paved streets have been put down 
in exactly the same manner and are of the same material as the best 
constructed streets in the largest cities. Up to six years ago the paved 
streets were all constructed of macadam and gravel, but during this 
period somewhat over eight miles of streets, exclusive of alleys, have 
been finely curbed, suppled with catch-basins and manholes, at proper 
intervals, at an expenditure, in round numbers, of $270,000. Like- 
wise, all paved streets are lined by the finest quality of granitoid pave- 




HOTEL KAISER. ;Value. .$50,000. 



ments, as smooth and hard as glass, or by excellent walks of hard 
brick, or block stone, of ample width. The curbings, also, are of su- 
perior quality, those made of Pettis county limestone being in blocks 
varying in length of the single pieces from five to twelve, and even fif- 
teen feet. 

The following are the principal paved streets, with the material 
used, and are those which are used for business and the largest amount 
of travel. 

Main street, nine blocks, or over half a mile, Telford. 

Second street, eight blocks, or a fraction less than half a mile, vit- 
fied brick. 

Third street, six blocks of Telford and 17 of asphaltum, a mile and a 
half. 



Fourth street, 17 blocks, or a mile and a half, (some blocks being un- 
usually long) of asphaltum. 

Fifth street, over 1 15 blocks, one mile, asphaltum. 

Seventh street, 15 blocks, or a fraction less than a mile, asphal- 
tum. 

Eighth street, or Broadway, has a central roadway 40 feet wide, 
and a roadway 30 feet wide, on each side, shaded for nearly a mile with 
four rows of large maple trees, and lined by a number of fine resi- 
dences. The central roadway, for 1 1 blocks, or three-fourths of a mile, 
is laid with vitrified brick. 

Ohio street, the main retail street, for eight blocks, or half a mile, is 
paved with cedar blocks. 

There are also 36 blocks in the business and resident portion of the 
city paved with gravel boulders, and topped off with macadam, making 




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LE GRANDE HOTEL. (Value, $25,000.) 



close to gl4 miles of paved streets. The approach of cold weather will 
check the laying of more paving this season, but in the spring of i8g6 
the present prospects are that from a mile and a half to two miles more 
will be put down. The cleanliness of these streets protect clothing and 
save foot wear; protect animals and vehicles, lessen the dust at all 
seasons, and afford the best surface drainage. 

There is not another city of 15,000 inhabitants in Missouri, or in 
Kansas, on the west; or in Illinois, on the east, where a citizen can 
stand in the centre of the city, and look to the east and to the west 
over a straight line of one mile of the finest asphaltum street. That 
can be done in Sedalia. 

KXPENDITURKS FOR STREETS, FIVE YEARS. 

June 19, i8go, the first piece of modern improved street paving 
was completed in Sedalia. From that date to December 31, 1895, thefol- 



lowing expenditures have been made on street paving, exclusive of the 
curbing, which was laid by property owners. The figures were taken 
from statements in the city records, with the assistance of City Clerk 
Trumbo. 

Ohio street, $21,984.16; Broadway, $35,262.89; Second street, 
$21,572,85; Fifth street, $14,287,26; Third street, $33,172.45; Seventh 
street, $15,258.20; Third street, $18,818.01 and $6,724.44; Main street, 
$8,292,15 and $7,617,91; Ohio street, $8, 797.78; Fourth street, $35,000 
(estimated); Seventh street, $7,600 (estimated); Fifth street, $17,- 
119.93. Total, $251,569.93. 

Add to this the cost of curbing 91 blocks, (it was more than this) 
at $300 a block, $27,300, and $2,912, spent in 1895, under the direction 
of the street commissioner, and the grand total is $271,781,93. 

HOW FIGURES WERE OBTAINED. 

The value of figures depends upon their absolute accuracy and 
truth, or "upon their very near approximation to the same." The 







J. W. MURPHY BUILDING. (Value. $30,000.) 



names of firms is not of the slightest importance to "outside people," 
for whom this "Review" is chiefly intended. It has been the earnest 
endeavor of the compiler to get accurate business figures as near as 
possible. He has known the majority of the business men and rail- 
road officials of this city for, anywhere from five to thirty years, per- 
sonally and in business transactions; and has known the business of 
the town from the starting of the first store. This being the case, with 
the exception of not more than ten or twelve persons, business men did 
not hesitate to give a confidential communication as to their private 
business to one whom they had known long enough to trust in such a 
matter. As the figures were given "in confidence" there was no reason 
why they should not be given accurately. From a personal knowledge 
of the character and standing of each individual, and from a compari- 
son of figures, where many separate ones were, procured, the writer 
believes that each separate item is about right; hence, the sum totals 
may be depended npon as being extreemely close to, if not the absolute 
truth. 

With only a few exceptions, figures were secured by a personal in- 
terview with a responsible head or representative of each firm. The 
sum totals of figures do not fill much space, but they tell a large and 
reliable story. 



Sedalia's t^ailt^oad Connections. 



MAP OF MISSOURI. 



LEAVEN MORT. 



ST. LOU IS 




Lines Centering in the City: Missouri; Kansas and Texas; Missouri, Kansas and 
Eastern; Missouri Pacific, main line; Missouri Pacific Branch, between 
Sedalia and Kansas City; Sedalia, Warsaw and South- 
western, narrow gauge. 



To St. Louis via the Missouri Pacific main line, i88 miles, where connection is made at the great Union 
Station with the trunk lines radiating to all parts of the United States. 

Sedalia to St Louis via the Missouri, Kansas and Eastern, 226 miles, where connection is made at the 
Union station with the great trunk lines radiating to all parts of the United States. 

Sedalia to Kansas City, Mo., via the Missouri Pacific main line, 95 miles, where connection is made 
with all the trunk lines radiating overihe West, Northwest and South west of the Mississippi River. 

Sedalia to Kansas City via Le.xington Branch of Missouri Pacific, 92 miles. 

Sedalia to Kansas City via the just opened new branch, the Kansas City division of the M., K. & T. R. 
R., 126 miles. Same connections at Kansas City to the West, North and South. 

Sedalia to Chicago via the M., K. & T. main line, 448 niiies. 

Sedalia to Galveston, Texas, and intermediate points and connections, go7 miles, via the M., K. & T. 
R. R. 

Sedalia to Chicago via the Lexington Branch of the Missouri Pacific R. R., 500 miles, over the new 
railroad and wagon bridge now in course of erection over the Missouri River at Lexington, Mo. This line 
connects with the Chicago and Alton R. R. south of the Missouri River and with the Santa Fe system, the 
Waoash and the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul systems north of the Missouri River. 



THE t^AIlil^OflD BOSIHESS. 



Value of the Railroad Property in Sedalia — One Hundred and 

Thirteen Miles of Road Bed in the County — The Principal 

Buildings — Number of Men in Eeach Department 

of Both Systems — Amount of Monthly 

and Yearly Pay Rolls Over One 

Million Annually. 



This is the largest single commercial interest in the city and brings 
as much money into the city for distribution, among its citizens as the 
wholesale trade. 

The entire railroad property in the city owned by the Missouri Pa- 
cific Company and the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Company, and the 
Sedalfa, Warsaw and Southwestern Railroad, consisting of real estate 
and the tracks, shop buildings, passenger and freight depots, round- 
houses for cars and locomotives, hospital, offices, store rooms, coal 
schutes; etc., etc., is estimated by experts, at the commercial value, in 
round numbers, of $500,000. These companies pay taxes to the city 
and county amounting to over $30,000 per annum. 

THE MISSOURI PACIFIC. 

The yards and local stock yards of the company cover an area of 
about fifteen acres. Upon this is located the switches, round houses 
for thirty locomotives, locomotive repair and rebuilding shops, offices, 
store rooms, coal schutes and turn table. The passenger depot, a $30,- 
000 brick building, in which are, also, the Superintendent's and other 
offices, is located in the north central part of the city. Everywhere 
order, cleanliness and neatness prevail. 

The Superintendent of the road, from St, Louis to Kansass City, 
is L. D. Hopkins, and his chfef clerk, James H. Mara; Division Super- 
intendent from Sedalia to Kansas City, (main line] and the Lexington 
branch, from Sedalia to Kansas City, M. Stilwell. 

The following are the various departments, with the number of 
men employed and the monthly pay rolls. 

Claim agents, N. T. Walker, George J. Dodd; pay roll, $250 per 
month. 

Commercial freight agent, E. Lane, two men; monthly pay roll, 
J265. 

Assistant Engineer, H. Rohwer, and two men; monthly pay roll, 

*375- 



Local freight office, Walter S. Shirk, agent, thirteen men; monthly 
pay roll, ^600. 

Telegraph department, L. S. Sheldon, superintendent; G. S. Ed- 
monson, chief clerk, sixteen men; monthly payroll, ^1,222. 

Telegraph repair department, J. S. Baker, general foreman, and 
thirty-five line men; monthly payroll, $2,200. 

Missouri Pacific Shops, S. P. Weller, assistant master mechanic, 
in charge of shops and road from Chamois, to Kansas City, Mo.; num- 
ber of machinists, blacksmiths, and boiler makers, 195; helpers, car 
repairers and miscellaneous, 22. Total; 217; monthly pay roll, 
;^ 10,500. Engineers and firemen, 130; clerks, store keepers and op- 
erator, 8; total, 138. Monthly payroll, $12,500. 

Transportation department, L. D. Hopkins superintendent, includ- 
ing train dispatchers, clerks, operators, yardmen, conductors, brakemen 



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S. C. GOLD'S BUILDING. (Value, $50,000.) 



and station agents, 240. Monthly pay roll, ;$ 15,000. Track men, 60; 
monthly pay roll, $1,410. 

Fuel department, 30 men; pay roll, 1^560. 

Total number of men, 757; total monthly pay roll, 1^44,872. 

Average approximate pay roll for one year, $558,464. 

Ticket office, H. L. Berry, agent. Sale of tickets for one year, up 
to Sept. 14, 1895: Local tickets, 1^49,833.25; coupon tickets, $16,- 
oig.85; excess baggage tickets, $2,067.55. Total, $67,920.55. 

THE M. K. & T. R. R. 

The yards upon which the shops of the Missouri, Kansas and Texas 
Railroad Company are located covers an area of about 30 acres. The 
two-story brick office, which contains the train dispatchers and clerical 
forces of the divsion superintendent, are located several blocks north 
east. In the yards proper are the offices of the superintendent of the 
car department, Samuel Irvin, and chief clerk, C. Morehead; superin- 



SEDAliIA'S.g&^ 



FIRST iJlflE 






DIRECT TO f\ND FROM 

ST. LOUIS, 

CINCINNATI, 

CLEVELAND, 
PHILADELPHIA, 

BOSTON 

AND NEW YORK. 

DAILiY FAST TJ^AIMS. 



C. G.WARNER, 

Vice President. 



(2 W. B. DODDRIDGE, 

General Manager. 



H. C. TOWNSEND, 

Gen. Pass. & T'k't Agt. 



tendent of telegraph, S. K. Bullard, and chief clerk, Ed Levens; also 
the brick passenger coach repair and paint shops, which accommodate 
eleven coaches; the freight car shops, for seven cars; the carpenter 
shop, blacksmith shop, store rooms, machine shops for metal, and a 
large lumber yard and store-room, with several minor buildings. Be- 
sides those mentioned above, the heads of departments are: W. B. 
Lyons, division superintendent; J. L. Wighton, general foreman; G. 
S. Lander, foreman machine shops for metal work; Al Hunicke, fore- 
man paint shop; R. S. Long, foreman blacksmith shop; J. H. John- 
ston, foreman coach shop; J. A. Starr, foreman freight car shop; W. 
H. Hodges, storekeeper. 

In these shops cars are rebuilt, or repaired, painted, and there is a 
special apparatus for testing air brakes. There are also tracks within 




J. M. OFFIELD BUILDING. (Value, $20,000,) 



the yards, where 50 cars can stand for repairs; also tracks in the imme- 
diate vicinity, whereon 100 cars may stand for rebuilding and repairs 
in good weather. 

The employes in the car depastment, Samuel Irvin superintendent, 
include car repairers, blacksmiths, machinists, painters, clerks and 
miscellaneous, to the uumber of 212. Monthly pay roll, 14,000. 

Division superintendent's office, N. B. Lyons, superintendent; P. 
E. Fisher, chief clerk, officers, clerks and callers, 14 men; monthly pay 
roll^ $1,490. 

The transportation department, which includes conductors, brake 
men, porters, etc, 169 men; monthly pay roll, ^10,854. 



Superintendent of telegraph department, operators, clerks and 
line repairers, lo men; monthly pay roll, $785. 

Freight office, John A. Wrong, agent; chief clerk, L. M. Shields; 
number of men, 9; monthly pay roll, $650. 




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McLaughlin bros. building. (Vaiue, $40,000.') 



Train dispatcher's office, 10 men; monthly pay roll, $785. 
Engineers, 38; firemen, 43; total, 81; monthly pay roll, $8,563. 
Commercial agent, John W. Conner, two men; monthly pay roll. 



.225. 



Traveling passenger agent, A. C. Miner; monthly pay roll, $150. 



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Fuel department, 3 men; monthly pay roll, $150. 

Traveling auditor, E. H. Tarley; monthly pay roll, $125. 

The M. K. & T. general hospital is situated about the center of a 
seven acre plat of high, smooth ground, neatly laid out, and surrounded 
by a forest of maple trees, not too close to make it damp. It is heated 
by steam and lighted by gas and electricity, with water service from the 
city works. 

The location is sightly, high and dry. In all its appointments and 
in its methods of management, it is considered by the medical frater- 
nity one of the best, if not the best, hospital west of the Mississippi 
river. The building is of brick, two stories high, and is the shape of a 
capital "H." The side wings are 125x35,- and the connecting part 
35x40 feet. It will comfortably accommodate 125 patients. Dr. E. F. 
Yancey, Surgeon-in-chief of the road, is in charge, his first assistant 
l)eing Dr. George McNeil. There is also a local board of consulting 
physicians. 

The number of men employed is 20, and the monthly pay roll is 
$800. 

M. K. & T. Total Men and Money — Total men, with headquarters 
in Sedalia, 532. Monthly pay roll, $38,577. 

RECAPITULATION. 

Total number employed by both roads, 1,294; P^)' ^^^^> both roads, 
monthly, $83,449. 

Approximate average paid out in this city, in twelve months, for 
wages, 

ONE MILLION, ONE THOUSAND, THREE HUNDRED EIGH'IY-EIGHT DOLLARS. 

Ticket sales of the M. K. & T. R. R., by H. L. Berry, for one 
year, ending October 14, 1895: Local tickets, $32,293.55; coupon 
tickets, $16,615.30; excess baggage, $1,475.95 total, $50,384.80. Total 
for both roads, $118,305,35. 

The total estimated receipts for freight, received at Sedalia, in one 
year, by both companies, is $260,000, 

The new passenger depot, 'which will be ready for occupancy Jan- 
uary I, 1896, is a handsome and solid building, 201 feet long, 36 and 
40 feet wide, and two stories high. The outside walls are of dove- 
colored limestone and brick, and the interior of hard brick. Its cost 
was $35,000. The building is very massive. 

THE S. W, & S. K. R. 

The Sedalia, Warsaw and Southwestern Railroad, narrow gauge, 
runs southwest from Sedalia, to Warsaw, the county seat of Benton 
County, a distance, of 45 miles. Warsaw, the south terminus, is a 
town on the Osage river. There are eighteen stations on the line, out- 
side of Sedalia, All have postoffices and daily mails. 

Cole Camp, a thriving town, /las 600 people. There is productive, 
well cultivated country all along the line. The road does an excellent 




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besiness, especially in the transportation of live stock and timber, and 
a good local passenger traffic. 

And average of 75 men are employed, and the pay roll amounts to 
about 536,000 a year. 

The officers are Receiver Thomas F. Mitchum, of Sedalia, Audi- 
tor and General Manager, Thomas W. Inge. 

lAXABLE WEALTH. 

Sedalia, Warsaw and Southwestern Railway Company, total valu- 
ation of property in the county, $38,052.44; total taxes, 1^609.41. 

Lexington branch of Missouri Pacific Railway, total valuation of 
property in county, $159,276.25; total taxes, $2,779.40. 

Missouri Pacific Railway Company, total valuation of property in 
county. ^548,979.51; total taxes, $10,414.56. 




D. H. SMITH (OLD) BUILDING. (Vakie,'$)0,ooo.) 



Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railway Company, total valuation of 
property in the county, $463,433.63;.. total taxes, $9,295.04. 

Total value of all railway and telegraph property in county, $1,- 
229,860.93; total taxes on all railway and telegraph property, $23- 
556.02. 

There are 113 miles of railroad track in the county. 

ELECTRIC STREET CARS AND LIGHT AND POWER COMPANIES. 

Quick, sure and cheap transportation, even within the limits of two 
and a half miles square, is an invaluable means of economy in time, 
money, worry and discomfort. The business man who lives a mile and 
a half from his place of business, on a cold, snowy morning, steps onto 
a warm electric car, in Sedalia, and is landed in a few moments at the 
door of his place of business. There is no waiting for a lazy hostler to 
hitch up a horse, hunt for wraps and then drive slowly through mud, 



slush, or snow. The business man, the lad}^, bound on a shopping 
tour, the school children ride in electric cars in this cit}', and the ex- 
pense of car fare is considered a mere trifle when compared with the 
cost of keeping a horse and bugyy, the wear and tear on shoe leather 
and clothing, the exposure to heat, and cold, and rain, and the general 
physical discomforts of pedestrianism in bad weather. In la3'ing out 
the electric car line in Sedalia, these points were taken into considera- 
tion: How to bring .he line within reach of the largest number of in- 
habitants, how to interfere least with streets of present or probable 
future traffic. Hence, the hne winds all aroqnd through the town and 
distant suburbs. From Heard's station, in the extreme northeast part 
of the city, to Forest park, in the extreme southwest, the distince is 
a little over five miles of track. 

Sedalia has twelve miles of perfectly constructed car line. The 
company is bonded for $200,000. W. C. Stern, of Topeka, Kansas, is 
president; D. C. Metsker, of Sedala, secretary, treasurer and general 
manager, and Charles Carroll, of Sedalia, an ex-alderman, superin- 
tendent. 

The plant has twelve dynamos, with 375 horse- power; three en- 
gines and two boilers, with a capacity of 150 horse-power steam pro- 
duction. There are thirty-one miles of electric wire. The city is fur- 
nished with 100 arc lights; x,joo incandescent lights and 50 arc lights 
are furnished business men and private residences. The 100 city lights 
bring a revenue of $8,700, incandescent lights $10,800, and the mer- 
cantile arc lights, $4,200 per annum. The company employs about 50 
men. Tlie nionthly pay roll is about $1,500, and expenditures for fuel 
$500 a month. The average operating expenses are about $2,600 per 
month. The plant power and tracks can be extended as circumsances 
demand. 

Owing to the tine condition of the paved streets over which the 
line runs, and the elevation of the track above the surface, in suburban 
districts, little obstruction to travel is ever caused by heav}'^ snows, 
which, by the way, are rare in this state, or section of Missouri. 

ELECTRIC LIGHT AND GAS COMPANY. 

The combined plants are valued at $200,000, and 25 persons are 
employed. 

The gas plant has eleven retorts, and a total productive capacity 
of 75,000 cubic feet of gas every twenty-four hours. Gasometer ca- 
pacity 35,000 cubic feet. The building containing the electric light 
plant is a solid, one-story brick, 50x110. The company furnishes 350 
consumers with gas; 1,687 incandescent lamps, and go arc lights. 
Total productive capacity, 2,000 incandescent and 100 arc lights. 

The equipment is of the very finest quality, from the smallest bolt 
up to the 16 feet in diameter and 16,000 pounds in weight, fly-wheel. 
About $9,000 worth of coal is consumed by this gas and electric com- 
pany. 



THE WHOLESALE TRADE. 

Sedalia has been a jobbing centre ever since the Missonri Pacific 
Railroad arrived here, in 1861; and hundreds of thousands of dollars in 
goods were transported by mule and ox teams to the west and south- 
west. Though there are four larger cities in the state — St. Louis, Kan- 
sas City, St. Joeseph and Springfield — which do a great jobbing trade, 
and have numerous lines of rail and river over which to send out and 
receive their goods, this city has continued to hold, if not to greatly in- 
crease, her wholesale trade, in certain lines, and "in spite of all com- 
petitors" 

Rough clothing, agricultural implements, woolen goods, candies, 
cigars, flour, boots and shoes, beer, wines and liquors, butter, poultry, 
eggs, grain, furs, hides, grease, feathers, horses and mules, are sent out 
of the city in large quantities, or numbers, to a large territory. A large 
firm, dealing in millinery, or a first-class dry goods jobbing house, 
could make money in the city, so say the shrewd buyers and business 
men. 

The following are the wholesale firms of the city: S H. Beiler 
Grocery Company, Sedalia Candy Company, (manufactures candy; sells 
crackers, cigars, tropical fruits, etc.); D. H. Smith Hardware Com- 
pany; Mackey Shoe Company; E. G. Cassidy, James Glass, P. McEn- 
roe, J. D. Murph}', dealers in wines, liquors and beer; Fred Helm, 
beer; Standard Oil Company, sub station, (with tank capacity of 200,- 
000; E. Lanpheimer, hides, wool, etc.; George Gold, G. M. Babcock, 
S. P. Johns & Sons, Johns & Looney, Sturges Bros., Central Lumber 
Company, lumber dealers; S. Kingsbaker, cigars; S. T. Lupe, W. A. 
McNeese, grain; four musical instrument firms, five agricultural imple- 
ment, wagon and buggy firms. 

The business done by single firms ranges from ;J5 15,000 up to forty, 
fifty, sixty, seventy-five, one-hundred, and four hundred thousand 
dollars. 

The grocery, candy, cigar, beer and liquor business, amounts to 
$743,000. 

Lumber trade, $230,000; butter, eggs and poultry, $300,000; 
boots and shoes, hides and grain, $150,000. 

Total number of firms, 30; total number of persons en^ployed, 151; 
total annual business, $1,727,000. 



Ira Hinsdale and John W. Menefee, proprietors of the two ''Horse 
and Mule Yards" of the city, during the year, up to November i, 1895, 
shipped from this city 2,445 head of horses and mules. At $50 and $60 
per head, their value was, $137,250. 

Ex-Mayor E. W. Stevens, who makes a specialty of fine roadster.'^-, 
saddle horses and carriage pairs, has this season, up to November i, 
1895, shipped 500 head of this kind of stock, which, at an average cost 




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$125 each, represents $62,500, which is below the real figures, if any- 
thing. 

Two dealers in apples, potatoes, cabbage, in the first six weeks of 
the opening of the shipping season, up to November 10, 1895, had sent 
out of Sedalia, over 30 cars of apples, and several of potatoes and cab- 
bage, Uiough the great drouth was hard on the latter. 

Two grain dealers, also, during the first six weeks of the season, 
have shipped from this city, 50,000 bushels of wheat and corn, though 
there are nine other railroad shipping points in the county. 

MANUFACTORIES. 

These establishments have had two great obstacles to contend 
against since their inception, to-wit: Lack of ample capital and the 
competition of old established institutions elsewhere, with large plants 
and abundant capital. Fuel, water, and raw material are abundant, 
and transportation facilities as good, numerous, and cheap as could be 
desired. In the face of the two great difficulties mentioned, our man- 
factories have progressed surely, but slowly, each season adding to 
the number of their patrons, increasing the quantity and quality of their 
outputs; and acquiring new buildings and better machinery. With the 
exception of the flouring mills, the ice plant and the gas and electric 
light works, and the new shirt and overall factory, the buildings are 
inexpensive, but adequate for their purposes. The last mentioned 
buildings are spacious and substantial. 

Our flours, woolen goods, of the grades and kinds manufactured, 
and the articles of clothing made, the kinds of agricultural implements, 
buggies and wagons produced, hold a place along side of similar goods 
made anywhere. 

The flouring and feed mills are worth ^135,000; the ice, clothing, 
woolen mill and three planing mills, $112,000; and the foundries, agri- 
cultural implement, carriage and wagon plants, $31,500; gas and elec- 
tric light works, $600,000. 

The woolen mills, three wooden work mills, two flouring mills, and 
three feed and meal mills, do a business of about $320,000; agricul- 
tural implement, two foundries and machine shops, ice, wagon and car- 
riage plants, about $105,000. 

The clothing, cigar, brewery, bakeries and harness business 
amounts to about $183,000. The remainder, done by the other plants 
enumerated, which, though not so large, count up well when added to- 
gether. 

The following are the manufactories of the city and number of per- 
sons engaged in each: 

J. A, Lamy Manufacturing company, pants, overalls, shirts; per- 
sons employed, 211. 

Sedalia Gas and Electric Light Company; employed, 25; Woolen 



Mills, 25 to 30; Ice Manufacturing Company, 20; Sedalia Milling Com- 
pany, Zimmerman and Harter managers, 10; Enterprise Roller Mill, 8 
City Mill; Queen City Brewery, 7; C. S. Wale, Capitol Feed 
Mill, 3; St. Lupe Feed Mill, 3; Menefee and Sons' Feed Mill, 5, Bar- 
ley Brothers & Company, agricultural implement and machine shop, 




H. H. MAREAN BUILDING. (Value, $30,000.) 



14; Theis, Smith & Wilhelm, 6; Wells & Craven, 7; machine shops 
and foundries, 12; Sedalia Planing Mill, 20 to 30; Stahl Architectural 
and General Wood Work Shop, 6; Sedalia Candy Company, 22; Keck 
& Dickman, manufacturers, furniture, hard wood, office, house and bar 
fixtures, lo to i'2; cigar factories, 23; T. H. Hayes, of the Capitol 



Bottling Works, R. H. Hunt, manager carbonated beverages, 
7; barrel factory, 5; Kelk Carriage Works, 20; Keisling, buggies 
and wagons, 8; Galvanized Iron Works, 5; copper and tin shop, 3; 
two steam laundries, 35; two marble works, 9, mattress factory, 3, fur- 
niture upholsterer, i; asphaltum street material plant, (when running) 
50; five bakeries, 22; F. E. Shelton Broom Factory, 3; Queen City Broom 
Company, 5; Gent's tent and awing factory, 3; Queen City Trunk 
Factory. 

RECAPITULATION. 

Total number of factories, 52. 

Total value of plants, ;^ 1,394,000. 

Total number of persons engaged, 462. 

Total annual business, $737,000. 

If it is estimated that each person engaged in this work receives 
only $26 per month, the wages paid for labor will amount to $11,912 
per month, or $133,944 per year. 




EQUITABLE BUILDING. 
(Value, $20,000.) 



The fifty men employed in the asphaltum street works not being 
employed the year ronud, are not included in the estimates of monthly 
and yearly wages. 

MANUFACTURE OF CIGARS. 

This is cited to show how a few small firms, each employing a few 
men, in the aggregate do a considerable business, and thus materially 
add to the grand total of manufactories. Sixteen cigar makers work 
regularly, with nine firms, in the city; and five more, at intervals. 
There are eleven helpers, mostly boys, who receive a total of from $25 
to $30 a week, in wages. The makers average $500 a year each, for 
wages, or a total of $8,000. The records of the deputy collector of 
United States revenue, show, in actual numbers reported, and by cigar 
stamps sold, that an average of 315,275 cigars are made in six 
months by nine regular firms, and two irregular workers, making a total 



of 630,550 cigars a year. The bulk of cigars made, in money, are those 
which retail at 10 cents. The total of the product for one year, at an 
average price of $32 per i,ooo, is $20,241. Add to this the cigars not 

home made, but sold by three local wholesale firms — $35,000 worth 

and it is safe to place the total annual sales of manufacturers and 
wholesalers at $50,000 per annum. The wages for labor and the profits 
of both manufacturers and wholesalers remain in this city. 

RETAIL TRADE. 
The following is a condensation of figures on the business done by 
the leading retail firms of the city, the merchants who furnish all the 
requisites for the homes; who clothe and feed the people, and furnish 
some of the luxuries and material pleasures which are considered "com- 
mon necessaries" by those who have the money to purchase them. In 

some of the lines of business there are only two or three firms large 

ones, usually — and to classify such firms under a single head, and give 
the figures, would be almost "a revelation of private business." And 
the writer had no intention of doing that, for the reason that each sep- 
arate fligure, which goes to make up the sum total of one year's average 
business, was given, in confidence, by the head or some authorized rep- 
resentative, of nearly every firm listed. The words at the head of each 
column show what the figures represent. 

Again, it was difficult to rigidly classify some lines of business, for 
the reason that, in western cities of this size, a single firm often deals 
in a variety of merchandise. For instance, some of the moderate sized 
grocery stores, deal also in feed, in wood, in coal. The three largest 
drug stores handle large quantities of paints, oil, etc., and nearly every 
one manufactures some article. Exclusive dry goods stores, "racket" 
stores, novelty stores, department and general stores, are all placed 
under the head of "Dry Goods and General Stores," as the variety of 
articles sold include groceries, clothing, foot and head wear, gents' 
furnishings, and numerous other articles. The exclusive dry goods 
stores, the millinery stores, and the clothing and hat stores, and the 
exclusive boot and shoe stores, carry as fine stocks, in quality and style, 
as can be seen in St. Louis or Kansas City. The grocery and provis- 
ion stores, also, have stocks of everything, native and foreign, that can 
be purchased in similar stores in New York or Chicago. 

In our restaurants meals can be had for from ten cents up; and in 
the leading restaurant, "Pehl's Fulton Market," one may order a meal 
of fish, game in season, oysters in shell, fresh lobsters, shrimp, and soft- 
shell crabs; a long line of imported delicacies, with native and foreign 
wines, that will cost anywhere, from $1.50 up to $20, if the epicure's 
purse is deep enough. In fact, with the exception of very costly furs, 
rare jewels and precious stones, our merchant's sell almost everythmg 
in common use in the United States. There is nothing "country-fied" 
about our mercantile houses. They are "up-to-date." 



The bulk of our store-rooms are spacious, lighted by electricity and 
gas, with plate-glass windows, two or three-story brick buildings. The 
fixtures, in the largest stores, are modern, artistic, convenient, and, in 
a number of cases, costly. Goods are arranged with taste and judg- 
ment. 

In dry goods and department stores, the business ranges from 
^2,500 to ^60,000 per annum; in groceries and provisions, from $1,500 
to $60,000; in clothing, hats and caps, boots and shoes, from 82,000 
to $45,000; millinery, from $5,000 to $12,000; restaurants, from $3,000 
to $18,000; in hotels, from $3,000 to $50,000; in house furnishings, from 
$10,000 to $50,000; in merchant tailoring, from $1,200 to $20,000; 
in fresh meat shops, from $5,000 to $20,000; books, from $8,000 to 
$40,000; livery and feed stables, from $2,000 to Sio.OOO. 

The following condensed figures do not "fill much space," but they 
represent the results of personal inquiries, made among over 200 busi- 
ness firms: 

CONDENSED RETAIL TRADE FIGURES. 

No. Of Persons Annual 

Firms Engaged Sales 

Groceries and Provisions 40 'i 2 1 $557, 800 

Fresh Meat Dealers 11 39 126,000 

Dry Goods, Department Stores. ..•••• 22 69 500,000 

Clothing, Gents Furnishing, Hats, 

Boots and Shoes 14 58 309,000 

Millinery, Dress Makers 5 35 44.000 

" " " 7 10 4,000 

Merchant Tailors, Repairers g 40 50, 200 

Restaurants 11 36 91 ,000 

Hotels 7 104 126,500 

Game, Fish, Fruit, Oysters, confections 7 21 26,000 

Boaiding Houses 18 lO.OOO 

General House Furnishings, Hardware, Stoves, 

and Plumbing Fixtures 5 31 136,000 

Jewelers g 16 55,000 

Drug Stores 10 30 122,000 

Furniture, Music, and Installment Stores 5 29 145,000 

Carpets, etc,. Glass and Queensware 5 .20 99,000 

Saloons 31 lOO 200, 400 

Barbers, Supplies, Baths 10 31 20,000 

Books, Stationery, Wall paper 5 30 87,000 

Livery and Boarding Stables 8 33 45,000 

New and Second Hand Stores ! 8 20 27,000 

Blacksmiths, Repairers 7 29 1 7,000 

Bakeries 5 22 25,000 

Total 259 926 $2,558,500 

WOOD AND COAL TRADE. 

Some of the grocers sell feed and fuel; and some of the feed stores 
sell fuel, not keeping separate accounts. Therefore, a general esti- 
mate of sales of fuel can only be made. 



According to the testimony of experts and dealers, an average of 
20 cars, of 50,000 lbs. each, of coal, are received daily in Sedalia. One 
firm sells $50,000 worth of fuel. The Electric Light and Power Com- 
pany, street car line, uses $io,000 worth of coal. The Gas and Elec- 
tric Light Company, $9,000, and the Water Works Company, ;^7,ooo 
or $8,000 worth per annum. The railroad companies, and manufac- 
turers, and hotels, are large consumers of coal. The estimated value 
of a years receipts and consumption of coal is $80,000. At least $25,- 
000 worth of wood is also consumed. Thus, a year's fuel costs a total 
of $105,000. 

The Sedalia Cycle Club reports there are 200 bicycles in use in 
city, and 6ro wheelmen and women, boys and girls. At an average re- 
tail price of $75 each, these wheels represent an investment amounting 
to $15,000. 




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F. E. HOFFMAN BUILDING. 

(Value, 75,000.) 

From investigation, in the legal profession,*the thirty-one prac- 
ticing attorneys in the city, have an aggregate income of $50,000 per 
annum. 

There are thirty-nine practicing physicians in the city, and it is 
only by a general knowledge of many details that an intelligent guess 
can be made at their aggregate incomes. Estimating incomes at five, 
four, three, two and $1,000 each, it is safe to place the aggregate at 
$60,000 per annum. 

There are eleven dentists, or firms, in the city. Experts estimate 
the aggregate business at $25,000 

There are five watch aad general repairers in the city, (not regular 
jewelers) who earn about $2,500 per annum. 

Eighteen shoemakers and repairers earn about $500 each per an- 
num, or a total of $9,000. 



The amount of money involved, in wages, did not warrant a search- 
ing investigation for details with regard to carpenters, bricklayers, 
stonemasons, lathers and plasterers, roofers, and the like. The city 
has an ample number of excellent workmen in all these lines. For the 
past fifteen years a fair amount of building has been done each season, 
and, in view of the general depression throughout the land, this class 
of working men have, at least, done as well, and, many of them, 
better, than the same class in other cities of the same population. As 
at least $150,000 were expended this season in buildings and street im- 
provements, the workingmen got a share of it. 



A half-page cut was ordered of this building, but the maker failed 
to send it in time. The building is a large one, being 160 feet long and 
60 feet wide. The two lower spacious stores are occupied by the J. A. 
Lamy Manufacturing Company, manufacturers of shirts, pants and 
overalls. 

The entire upper story by the Mackey Shoe Company. The build- 
ing and machinery are valued at ^40,000. 



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FiHflNcmii iHstitUtioHs. 

Below will be found the official, sworn statement, required by law 
of the Sedalia Banks, Trust and Loan Companies, and Building and 
Loan Associations. As the statements speak for themselves, but a few 
words of comment are needed, and those, words of plain, unvarnished 
truth. The banks are conducted with the utmost care, and yet, with a 
liberality which enables responsible men to get money, at all times, for 
legitimate enterprises, and at living interest. The banks stick to their 
legitimate business as banks for the people. The building and loan 
associations have, for over twenty years, been of inestimable value to 
the citizen who could and was disposed to save money, and have his 
own home. With but one single exception, there has never been any 
violation of the rules of honesty or judicious business management 
among them. The statements of the German, the Occidental, and 
Seventh Building and Loan Associations, are not published, as these 
three, after spotless and useful careers of from eleven to thirteen years, 
are about to wind up their business, having successfully accomplished 
the purposes of their organization. 

THIRD NATIONAL BANK. liabilities. 

Capital stock paid in $100,000 00 

[Report Sept 23. 1895 ] Surplus fund 30,000 00 

Undivided profits, less ex- 

Rp^QATTRowe penses and taxes paid 11,359 28 

1 T. National bank notes out- 
Loans and Discounts $410,512 50 standing . 22,500 00 

Overdrafts, secured and un- Due to state banks and 

secured 5,534 22 bankers 42 115 41 

U. S. Bonds to secure circu- Individuardeposits "subiect 

lation 25,000 00 to check ' 279 069 35 

Premiums on U. S. bonds.... 3,500 00 Time certificates of deposit.".'.'. 52i678 71 

Stocks, securities, etc 1,849 22 

Bankinffhouse, fixtures and Total .$537,722 75 

furniture 4,013 75 

Other Real estate and mort- 

gages owned 7,365 48 CITIZENS' NATIONAL BANK. 

Due from National banks 

[not reserve agents 145 70 [Report of July ii, 1895.] 

Due from approved reserve 

agents .. 43,066 20 resources. 

Checks, other cash items 8,868 13 j ■, ■,. , ^r,,r, r--, r,,. 

Other National Bank Notes.. 1 850 00 f^oans and discounts... $248,511 70 

Fractional paper currency, ^Tecured ' '^ ^ I 745 96 

nickels 152 05 tt o {^ J ■■; "• ' 

U. o. bonds to secure circu- 

LAWFUL MONEY RESERVE IN BANK, VIZ. latiou 2 000 00 

Specie $12,840 50 Stocks, securities, etc 2^672 5o 

Legal tender notes 11,500 00 24,340 50 Banking-house, fixtures and 

Redemption fund with U. S. furniture 18,800 00 

Treasurer [5 per cent of Due from National banks 

circulation 1,125 00 (not reserve agents) 7,632 92 

Due from state banks and 

Total $537,722 75 bankers 1,100 87 



Due from approved reserve Surplus funds on hand 3,026 17 

agents 44,942 15 Deposits subject to draft at 

Checks and other cash items 2,309 38 sight by banks and bank- 

Notes of other national ers 1,362 47 

bans 7,108 00 Deposits suJbject to draft at 

Ideational paper currency, sight by individuals and 

nickels 40 00 others 99,851 20 

LAWFUL MONEY RESERNE IN BANK, Viz. Deposits subject to draft at 



Specie $15.89170 25,89170 ^.^1^^^ ^^uf*^" :: , r„ V^ ■ ^'^'^^ 06 

egal tender notes 10,000 00 " " " 

-.demotion fund with U. S. 

(5 per cent of circulation) 1,125 00 



Specie $15,891 70 25,891 70 o.-T,^''" Tr*" , i •„ V^ ' 

Legal tender notes 10,000 00 ^'"'^ payable and bills redis- 
K^demotion fund with U. «. counted 5,000 00 



Total $386,980 18 



Total $165,297 90 

BANK OF COMMERCE. 



LIABILITIES. [Report of Aug. 22, 1895.] 

Capital stock paid in $100,000 00 

Surplus fund 30,000 00 RESOURCES. 

Undivided prohts, less ex- Loans and discounts, un- 

penses and taxes paid 3,149 66 doubtedly good, on per- 

National bank notes out- sonal or collateral secu- 

standing 22,500 00 rity $195,713 29 

Due to state banks and bank- Loans and discounts, un- 

ers 51,404 81 doubtedly good, on leal 

Individual deposits subject estate security 7,539 85 

to check... 100,806 71 Overdrafts by solvent cus- 

Time certificates of deposit.. 19,119 00 tumers 441 20 

Other bonds and stocks at 

Total .: $386,980 18 their present cash market 

price 



Real estate at present cash 

THE PEOPLE'S BANK. market value 

Furnitre and Fixtures 3.000 00 

[Reportof Aug. 22, 1895.] ^^^ f^'oui Other banks... 53,036 52 

Checks and other cash items 9,350 55 

National bank notes, legal 

RESOURCES. tender United States gold 

Loans and discounts, un- and silver certificates 9,228 00 

doubtedly good, on per- Gold coin 200 00 

sonal or coUatteral secu- Silvver coin 2,134 05 

rity $ 65,691 76 

Loans and discounts, un- Total $280 643 82 

doubtedly good, on real 

estate security 18,926 15 liabilities. 

Overdrafts by solvent cus- Capital stock paid in $100,000 00 

tomers. ^,117 85 Surplus funds on hand 8,059 40 

United btates bonds on hand Deposits subject to draft at 

Other bonds and stocks at ^j ^^ ^y individuals and 

their present cash market ^^^^^^.^ 156,012 02 

^ value ....^..... 21,350 00 Deposits subject to draft at 

Furniture and fixtures 2,796 00 given dates 16,35100 

Due from other banks, good Bills payable and bills re- 

on sight draft 4/, 122 66 discounted 

Checks and other cash items 1,113 63 Deposits subject to draft by 

National bank notes, legal banks and bankers 221 40 

tender, U nited btates notes 

and gold and silver certifi- t^^^j $280,643 82 

cates 1,358 00 

gold coin 1.240 00 SEDALIA NATIONAL BANK. 

Silver com 708 34 



Total $165,297 90 [Report of Sent. 28. 1895.] 



liabilities. resources. 
Capital stock paid in $ 50,000 00 Loans and discounts $218,733 37 



Overdrafts, secured and un- Past due loans, remitted 

secured 1,266 26 for, but not paid to us. 6,028 25 

U. b. bonds to secure circu- Past due interest remitted i~^ ' 

lation 25,000 00 for but not p^id tons . 5 262 '>o 

Stocks, securities, etc 300 00 Accrued interest on deben- 

Banking- house, fixtures and ture loans ( Including in - 

furniture. :.... 22,508 42 terest due July 1, 1895) . 15,637 26 

Due from National banks Stocks and bonds 33 885 00 

(not reserve agents) 36 32 Banking house and fix- 
Due from state banks and • tures .... 43 OOO 00 

bankers 32 30 Other real estate' ' ..'."'. 39*29816 

Due from approved reserve Due from banks and bank - 

agents 8,372 34 ers 49 986 16 

Checks and other cash items 2,420 00 Due from sundry persons 33'771 70 

Notes of other National Cash on hand.. . 5' '^80 31 

banks 229 00 ' 

Fraetional paper currency, Total $1 570 144 15 

nickels 16 27 ' ' 

LAWFUL MONEY RESERVE IN BANK, VIZ. LIABILITIES. 

o . Capital stock paid in 200,000 00 

fPeeie $9,129 45 Surplus fund ... . 50 000 00 

Legal-tender notes 3,000 00 12,129 45 Uundivided profits. . . . 5*399 00 

Redemption fund with the Debenture bonds outsand- 

United States treasurer (5 ing 1 067 030 00 

per cent of circulation) 825 00 Certified bonds outstand- ' 

in^ 72,825 00 

Total $291,868 72 <^'ertificates of deposit. 

bearing interest 36,286 33 

LIABILITIES. Loans paid.but not remit- 

Capital stock paid in $100,000 00 j ted for 4,014 75 

Surplus fund 12 000 00 interest paid in advance 

Undivided profits, less ex- by borrowers 4,014 75 

penses and taxes paid 925 57 ^™«t savings 1,841 25 

National bank notes out- interest uncalled for on 

standing '>2 500 00 debentures and certified 

Due state banks and bank- ' ,..^*?'?^^^v 8,165 93 

ers 4,797 14 l^ividend, payable on de- 

Individuai deposits suoject ' ^"e to sundry persons . 3,7.35 31 

to check 105,092 45 „ , 

Time certificates of deposit 24,553 57 -"^^^tal $1,570,144 15 

Bills payable 10,000 00 

Liabilities other than those banks, rkcapiiulation. 

aboTe stated 12,000 00 n u v 1 • j 

; Cash capital paid up, $650,- 

Total $291,868 73 000; reserve funds, ^138, 085; cur- 

rent and time deposits, etc., 

MISSOURI TRUST COMPANY. $895,882; buildings, . fixtures and 

furniture, $94,117. Total invested 

[Report of June 30, 1895.] capital, reserves, buildings and 

fixtures, $877,192. 



ASSETS. 



Loans secured by first liens BUILDING AND LOAN COM- 

on real estate lodged with PANIES 

trustees $1,227,220 35 

Loans secured by first liens 

in real estate m ofiice. . . 66,532 25 

Loans secured by second EQUITABLE LOAN AND INVEST- 

liens on real estate at 85 MENT ASSOCIATION NO. 2. 

per cent 417 15 

Loans on collateral secu- [Reportof August 31, 1895.] 

rity 24,118 75 

Loans on personal security 12,426 56 resources. 

Unfinished loans ,. 7,280 00 Cashonhand $ 463 03 



Loans on real estate, first 

mortgage 52,886 15 

Loans on stock 546 65 

Interest due and unpaid. . . . 614 80 

Real estate 6,12137 

Furniture and fixtures 424 27 

Oftice building 8,618 54 

First National Bank 166 52 

Due from borrowers 59() 00 

Cancellation fees 00 

►Secured 880 25 

Total $ 71,349 88 

LIABILITIES. 

Installment stock $ 48,027 45 

Prepaid stock 00 

Full paid stock 19,645 00 

Bills payable 00 

Dividends declared and cred- 
ited 00 

Due borrowers 00 

Borrowed money 00 

Undivided profits 3,500 00 

Surplus : DiftVence between 
book and withdrawal value 

of stock 00 

Due holders of forfeited 

stock 87 40 

Total $ 71,346 88 



EQUITABLE LOAN AND INVEST- 
MENT ASSOCIATION. 



[Report of August 31, 1895. 



RESOURCES. 

Cash on hand $ 4,303 62 

Loans on real estate, first 

mortgage 273,166 48 

Loans on stock 94,927 58 

Interest due and unpaid 2,436 15 

Fines due and secured .... 100 95 

Real estate .... 37,202 03 

Furniture and ffxtures ... . 1,056 57 

First National bank 1,056 57 

Ofiice building 8,614 35 

Due from borrowers 525 32 

Judgments 3,058 36 

Cancellation fees secured... 4,023 05 

Total $430,437 95 

LIABILITIES, 

Installment stock $197,224 63 

Prepaid stock .... o 00 

Full paid stock 188,670 00 

Bills payable 4,000 00 

Dividends declared and cred. 

ited . . 00 

Due borrowers 251 00 

Borrowed money o 00 

Undivided profits 29,827 75 



Surplus: difference betweeil 

book and with drawal 

value of stock 9,863 97 

Due to holders of forfeited 



stock 



600 00 



Total. 



MIDLAND 



.$430,437 95 



LOAN AND 
COMPANY. 



SAVINGS 



[Report of August 31, 1895. 



RESOURCES. 

Cash on hand $ 8,500 55 

Loans on real estate deeds of 

trust 187,880 00 

Loans on stock . .. .... 3,398 00 

Interest and premium due 
and unpaid 6,831 58 

Real estate 21,249 13 

Contingent taxes and inter- 
ests advanced 465 63 



Total $228,384 89 



LIABILITIES 

Installment stock, amount 

paid in $ 68,254 89 

Prepaid stock 42, 160 00 

Full paid stock 103,400 00 

Due borrowers 529 45 

Undivided profits 8,509 98 

Surplus: difference between 

book and withdrawal value 

of stock 5,630 57 

Total $228,384 89 



SEDALIA LOAN AND SECURITY 
COMPANY. 



[Report of June 29, 1895. 



RESOURCES. 

Real estate below cash value. $ 2,170 55 
Loans secured by real estate. . 8,769 47 

Fixtures 35 00 

Cash in bank and on hand . . . 365 82 

Total $11,340 84 

LIABILITIES. 

Capital stock $8,616 00 

Undivided profits 746 88 

Certificates of indebtedness.. 800 00 
Ledger accounts 1,177 96 

Total .. $11,340 84 



PIONEER BUILDING AND LOAN Undivided profits . 

ASSOCIATION. Surplus 

Casli due secretary 



[Report of September 1, 1895.1 



RESOURCES. 

Bills receivable $16,61181 

Cash with treasurer 656 61 

Furniture and fixtures 100 00 

Real estate 2,812 82 

Delinquent dues 839 22 

Total $21,020 46 

LIABILITIES. 

Capital stock $18,933 48 

Suspended bonus account. ... 186 98 

Matured stock 1,900 00 

Total $21,020 40 

154 shai'es in force, book 

value $ 122 94 

Cancellation value, 10 per 

cent oft'. 



SEDALIA BUILDING AND LOAN 
ASSOCIATION. 



[Report of September 16, 1895. 



Cash on hand and in treas- 
ury $ 

Loans on real estate (first 
mortgage) 

Loans on stock 

Interest due and unpaid. . . . 

Fines due and secured 

Real estate 

Furniture and fixtures ... 

Overdrafts by borrowers, 
secured 

Back dues and interest and 
premium 

Insurance 

Tax account .... 

Rents due and unpaid 

Suspense- -dues, interest and 
premium ... 



1,546 47 



75,925 


08 


860 


50 


2.032 


50 


281 


50 


40,418 


00 


349 


05 


1,181 


35 


3,708 


35 


1,088 


04 


560 


67 


75 


00 



1,427 12 



Total $129,454 02 



LIABILITIES. 

Installment stock $ 50,200 00 

Full paid stock 61,800 00 

Bills payable, due on real 

estate 2,500 00 

D i vidends declared and 

credited 1,095 52 

Due borrowers 578 49 



Total . 



MUTUAL 



8,008 07 

5,741 37 

470 57 

.$129,454 02 



BENEFIT B. 
ASSOCIATION 



AND L. 



[Report of August 31, 1895.. 



RESOURCES, 

Cash on hand $ 1,682 15 

Loans on real estate, first 

mortgage 60,933 03 

Loans on stock 800 00 

Interest due and unpaid . . . 330 92 

Premiums due and unpaid.. 220 60 

Dues due and unpaid 718 95 

Taxes advanced 32 69 

Balance on charter and 

books 334 38 

Expenses since July 1895... 78 50 

Total $ 65,131 22 

LIABILITIES. 

Installment stock $ 25,850 90 

Prepaid stock 400 60 

Full paid stock 31,285 00 

Dividends due and credited. . 4,830 00 

Undivided profits 345 30 

Interest and premium (col- 
lected since July 1, 1895). 3 40 
Fines (collected since July 

1, 1895.) 3 85 

Loss and gain to balance 
unpaid due, interest and 

premium) ... 1,270 47 

Total $ 65,131 22 

Authorized capital stock. . .$500,000 00 

Par value of shares 100 00 

Number shares issued in last 

six months 428^2 

Number shares cancelled 
in last six months 219^2 

Number of shares in force 

now 2,510 

Number of shares borrowed 
on 571^2 

Number of shares not bor- 
rowed on 1,618^2 

Number of payments on in- 
stallment stock 39 

Book value of installment 
stock per share, (60 cents 
per month paid on the 
share) $28 89 



PUBliIC AHD PRIVATE SCHOOliS. 



Number, Dimensions, Seating Capacity and Cost of Buildings- 
Number of Teachers and Annnal Expenditures— The 
New High School Building One of Sedalia's 
Most Valued Institutions — Private 
and Church Schools. 



BOARD OF EDUCATION. 

Ira T. Bronson, M. D., President; S. C. Beiler, Vice President; 
August Fleischmann, Secretary; Morris Harter, Treasurer; C. C. V^in 
Wagner, G. W. Barnett, Directors; G. V. Buchanan, Superintendent. 




AUG. T. FLEISCHMANN, 
Secretary Board of Education. 



In discipline and thorough Instruction; in care for the health of 
pupils; in the character and qualifications of teachers; general and 
financial management the public and private schools of this city stand 
high among those of the west. A number of the buildings are spacious 
and substantial, superior in arrangement and furnishings, having all the 
appliances that modern ingenuity has produced, experience could sug- 
gest or money purchase. It has required constantly increasing expen- 
ditures in the. way of buildings to keep up with the steady and rapid in- 
crease in the population of the city; and these expenditures have been 
promptly and cheerfully met by taxpayers. 

This year, 1895, a $30,000 High School building has been com- 
pleted. Every building is surrounded by a large yard, thus affording 
ample play grounds; an abundance of pure fresh air and floods of light. 
School buildings are not wedged in among others as in larger cities. 



The private schools also have ample ground room and large and sub- 
stantial buildings perfectly adapted to their purposes. 

The following are the public school buildings: 

The High School building, completed Nov. 13, 1895, is of War- 
rensburg sandstone, three stories in height, with a basement for offices 
heating apparatus, fuel and storage rooms. It is looxgo feet and 80 
feet high to the comb of the slate roof. There are three rooms on the 
south side each of which contains seats for 618 pupils; three rooms on 
each floor, which seat from 48 to 50 pupils each. The three open halls 
or courts, in the centre of the building, are 30 feet square. There are 
hree smaller recitation and cloak rooms on each floor. There are four 
windows each of which is 20 feet long and 10 feet high. These light 







MORRIS HARTER, 
Treasurer Board of Education. 



the largest rooms. The seats are the latest improved folding opera 
chairs of wood and iron; and some of them have a movable shelf on 
the right arm, on which can be placed a tablet for writing. The audi- 
torium on the third floor is the place for general assemblage and public 
entertainments. It contains a platform or stage and 618 opera chairs, 
of larger size and finer mateiral than the others, each chair bearing a 
brass number. The building contains 17 rooms and is intended to give 
study room to 500 pupils, though there are seats in all the rooms to- 
gether for 2,500. There is no crowding together of seats, the aisles 
between and encircling them being wide and clear. The entire build- 
ing is heated by steam and lighted by gas and electricity. 



The plan of the interior is said to be perfect for its purposes. 
Quick entrance can be gained from all the rooms to the central halls or 
courts. The stairways being broad and of easy slope the building 
could be cleared in two minutes in case of fire. Cost $30,000. 

The Broadway school is a three-story brick and with two- story 
brick annex is 135 feet front by 100 deep. It is divided into 16 rooms 




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SUMMIT SCHOOL BUILDING. (Value, $20,000. 



and has a seating capacity for 960 pupils. It is surrounded by a very 
spacious yard and cost with annex $30,000. 

Prospect school: The building is brick, two stories, 70x70 feet; 
contains eight rooms and has a seating capacity of 470. Value ^20,000. 

Summit school: Is a two-story brick about 70x70 feet, contains 10 
rooms and has a seating capacity of 600. Value, with frame annex, 
$22,000. 



North-East school: Two-story brick, four rooms, seating capac- 
ity 230. Value 17,500, 

Franklin school: Two-story brick, four rooms, seating capacity 
230. Value $10,000. 

South-East school: One story frame, three rooms, seating capac- 
ity 160. Value $3,000, 

South-West school: One story frame, two rooms, seating capacity 
124. Value $4,000. 

East Primary: Frame, one story, seating capacity 118. Value 
$5,000. 

Lincoln colored school: Two story brick, 60x60 feet, eight rooms, 
seating capacity 480. Value $12,500. 




GEO. R. SMITH COLLEGE. (Value, $50,000.) 



Total value of public school buildings $144,000. Total seating 
capacity 3,872. Total number of teachers 71. Salaries $32,500 per 
term. Total annual expenditures for public schools $61,291. 

PRIVATE AND CHURCH SCHOOLS. 

The School of the Sacred Heart is under, charge of the priest of 
the parish and the Sisters of that order. The school building and Sis- 
ters' dwelling is frame, two stories in height, 125x35 feet. The aver- 
age number of pupils is 125; teachers 5; value of property $5,000. 

School of the Sisters of St. Joseph, also Roman Catholic. The 
Sisters' residence is a handsome, substantial two-story brick, value 
$5,000. The school room is a two-story frame 30x40 feet; seating 
capacity for 100 pupils. There are 60 pupils and four teachers. The 
residence, school and large finely shaded grounds are worth $7,500. 



THE RAMSDELL SCHOOL FOR BOYS. 

Founded September, 1894, by R. R. Ramsdell, a graduate of 
Princeton college. The purpose of the school is the preparation of 
boys for college. During the first year the school advanced from a 
nucleus of 11 pupils to 25 pupils. At the present term there is a reg- 
ular attendance of 45 students. Graduates from the school can enter 
the Sophomore class of the Missouri State University. Mr. C. S. 
Walds, also a Princeton graduate, is assistant instructor in Greek and 
mathematics; Miss R. P. McAssey teacher of Latin, French and Ger- 
man. The school is increasing steadily in number of pupils and pub- 
lic confidence. 

GEORGE R. SMITH COLLEGE FOR COLORED J'EOPLE 

Is lecated in the suburbs, three blocks from the electric street car 
line, in the south centre of 24 acres of beautiful land. The land was 
donated to it for the purpose, by Mesdames Smith and Cotton, the sur- 
viving daughters of Gen. George R. Smith, the founder of Sedalia. 
The building is of brick with stone trimmings. See cut. 

The main building is 120 feet front by 40 deep. The ell 75x40 
feet. It is three stories high above a deep basement; heated by steam 
and is to be lighted by gas and electricity. It contains 62 rooms and 
will accommodate je^ boarding students. The building has water pipes 
throughout, bath rooms on every f^oor. At present it contains a large 
tank which is supplied with water by force pump from a deep well and 
two large cisterns. It can be easily connected with the city water 
works. Now in the first half of its third year it has 80 pupils 25 of 
whom are boarders. There are nine teachers with the president, Rev. 
E. A. Robertson, A. M. The college is paying all expenses, except 
those of teachers, which are paid by an associatfon. The income at 
present is $3,500 per annum. There will be 125 students by January 
10, 1896. The cost of the building was 1^50,000. The general assem- 
bly room seats 300. The interior arrangements are perfect for its pur- 
poses. 

'IHE HOPKINS SCHOOL. 

Misses Lizzie and Julia Hopkins have for the past 10 years con- 
ducted a successful private school for boys and girls. It has been so 
carefully conducted that is now one of tne valuable institutions oi the 
city. 

CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC. 

There have been three successful musical schools in the city during 
the past ten years. The largest and most successful is the one now 
conducted by Prof. Lenzen. 

BUSINESS COLLEGE. 

There is a large, complete business college and commercial school, 
which has been established for over ten years; and now has a'schoo 
building and residence property estimated at the value of $25,000. 



cHtJt^cHES. 



General Description and Value of Edifices — Seating Capacity- 
Membership — Sunday School Scholars and Teachers — 
Average Annual Expenditures — Recapitulation. 



During the past fifteen years, with the exception of three or four, 
al! the church buildings, mostly of frame, which were erected during 
the earlier progress of the city, have been replaced by larger, more 
substantial and costlier brick and stone edifices of the most approved 
styles of church architecture. There are but two frame churches, now 
occupied by white congregations. The new structures are as handsome 




^^^*^r^r=?*si: 



CHRISTIAN CHURCH. (Value. $40,000.) 



in appearance as can be seen anywhere in a city of the same or even 
larger size. In most cases they have the best of interior fittings, col- 
ored glass windows; are heated by steam or hot air and lighted by gas or 
electricity; and a number have large lecture rooms, parlors for social 
meetings, costly pipe organs, with paid choirs, or choir leaders and 
organist. 



The membership and annual expenditures of each congregation is 
the evidence of the church's material prosperity and serves as a partial 
index as to the spiritual condition of the city. 

First Congregational church, edifice 90x100 feet; built of rough, 
lead colored sandstone; seating capacity 800; large illuminated win- 
dows; lighted by gas and electricity; Sneed system of heating; bell 
and large belfry; cost ^30,000; value with lot, 535;ooo; membership 







FIRST M. E. CHURCH. (Value, $40,000.) 



425; Sunday school scholars 250; Sunday school teachers 20; annual 
expenditures $3,500. 

Second Congregational, frame edifice;' 40x60 feet; value $3,500; 
seatmg capacity 400; membership 3, 35; Sunday school scholars 38; 
Sunday school teachers 5, annual expenditures $800; stove heat; 
oil chandeliers. 

First Christian church, edifice of brick and stone 70x100 feet; 
seating capacity 1,000; pictured windows; steam heat, gas and elec- 



tricity; lecture room, large parlors and kitchen for social meetings; 
cost $40,000; membership 950; Sunday school scholars 700; Sunday 
school teachers 28; annual expenditures $5,000. $i,doo organ. 
See cut. 

First Baptist church, edifice of brick and stone 120x60 feet; seat- 
ing capacity 800; steam heat, gas, electricity: $2,000 pipe organ; paid 
choir leader; large pictorial windows; parlors; cost $30,000; member- 
ship 375; Sunday school scholars 200; Sunday school teachers 18; an- 
nual expenditures $3,500. 




CUMBERLAND PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. (Value, $20,000.) 



East Sedalia Baptist church, edifice frame, 75x40 feet; seating 
capacity 200; stove heat, oil chandeliers; church organ; membership 
175; Sunday school scholars 175; Sunday sehool teachers 16; annual 
expenditures $1,500. Value of edifice, ^1,800. 

Cumberland Presbyterian church, edifice of brick and stone 90x75 
feet; seating capacity 800; steam heat, gas, electricity; $1,200 pipe 
organ, paid choir; value $20,000; membership 225; Sunday school 
scholars 150; Sunday school teachers 10; annual expenditures $2,500. 




PROPOSED TRINITY LUTHERAN CHURCH. (Value, $i5.ooo.) 



This is a cut of the proposed Trinity Lutheran Church which wil 
be erected in a few months. The building fund is almost complete 
and the lot purchased. Work will be began in the spring of 1896- 
The building will be of pressed brick with stone trimmings. Audi- 
torium, 40x46 feet; Sunday school room, 21x39 feet; altar alcove and 
vestry room. Primary room, 23x8 feet. Tower 15x15 at base; 70 feet 
high; estimated cost, ^15,000. 



Broadway Presbyterian church, edifice of brick and stone 60x100 
feet; seating capacity 500; pipe organ $800; hot air heat; gas light; 
illuminated windows; parlors; membership 275; Sunday school schol- 
ars 170; Sunday school teachers 18; annual expenditures $3,500. Val- 
ue, ;^ 25, 000. 

Central Presbyterian has a neat and comfortable frame edifice and 
parsonage opposite the Court House; dimensions, 45x55 feet; seating 
capacity, 300; furnace heat; gas and electricity; membership 194; Sun- 
day school 125; teachers 13; average annual expenditures $2,375; value 
of property ^13,500. 

First M, E. Church, edifice of rough Warrensburg sandstone, Sox 
100 feet; seating capacity 1,200; hot air heating, gas, electricity; pipe 
organ $2,500; value of edifice $40,000; membership 600; Sunday 
school scholars 400; Sunday school teachers 30; annual expenditures 
$4,000. See cut. 

First M. E. Church South, edifice of brick 6oxgo feet; seating 
capacity 600; steam heat, gas and electricity; chur:h organ. Edifice 
$12,000; mem])ership 400; Sunday school scholars 200; Sunday school 
teachers 12, annual expenditures $2,000. 

Epworth League M. E. church, edifice of brick; dimensions audi- 
torium 40x48 feet; lecture room 32x50 feet; basement room 70x50 
feet; total seating capacity 700; value of church edifice $11,000; fur- 
nace heat, gas. Parsonage, two-story frame, value $2,200. Total 
value church property, $13,200. Membership 200; Sunday school 
scholars 200; teachers and officers 15; Epworth League members 40; 
average annual expenditures $1^300. 

Calvary Chapel, Episcopal, edifice of rough Warrensburg sand- 
stone 75x75 feet; seating capacity 400; furnace heat, gas, electricity; 
church organ; part paid choir; handsome frame rectory 2^^ stories; 
value of property $18,000; membership 300; Sunday school scholars 
135; Sunday school teachers 14; annual expenditures $3,000. 

Church of the Sacred Heart, Roman Catholic, edifice of brick, 140 
x6o feet; two steeples 120 feet high; seating capacity 1,000; $1,000 
pipe organ; steam heat, gas and electric light; fine parsonage; cost 
$40,000; membership 155; Sunday school scholars 80; teachers, priest 
in charge and assistant; annual expenditures $2,000. This is, in its 
exterior, one of the most imposing ecclesiastical edifices in the city. 

St. Vincent de Paul, Irish Catholic, brick, 125x50 feet; seating ca- 
pacity, 600; stove heat, gas and electricity; value, $6,000; member- 
ship, 400; Sunday school scholars, ; teachers, ; annual ex- 
penditures, $1,500. 

German Evangelical Lutheran Church, frame, 60x20; seating capac- 
ity, 200; stove heat, gas; parsonage attached, 40x20 feet; value of 
both, $3,000; membership, 180; Sunda)' school scholars, 120; teachers, 
12; parish day school also; annual expenditures, $900. This church 



owns, and has paid for, a ;^4,ooo lot, 100x120 feet. In the spring of 
1896 a $10,000 brick church, of fine design, with school room addition, 
will be erected. The total present value of the church property is 
$7,000. 

German Methodist Church, brick, 40x60 feet; seating capacity, 
300; stove heat, gas; value, ^5,000; parsonage, two-story frame, 9 
rooms; value, ^2,000; one lot, $1,000; membership, 100; Sunday 
school scholars, 70; teachers, 12; annual expenditures, ^1,000. 

Seventh Day Adventists—This body has a neat, frame house of 
worship, 30x50 feet, with a seating capacity of from 125 to 150; is 




Missouri Pacific Depot. Sedalia. Mo. 



heated by stoves and lighted by oil chandeliers. Value of lot and 
church, $7,200; membership, 40; Sunday school scholars, 45; teachers, 
5. There is no regular pastor. The annual expenditures are about 
^500. 

The Young Men's Christian Association occupies two floors of a 
large, handsome three-story brick building. (See cut). The second 
floor contains the reading room, secretary's office, double parlors and 
assembly room. The third floor is taken up by the gymnsium and bath- 
rooms. The total membership October i, 1895, was 422. Of these, 
151 are subscribing members, and 271 fee-paying members, who enjoy 
all the privileges of the association. The receipts for the year werg. 



from subscriptions, $1,387; from membership cards, $899; from sundry 
surces, 1^419. Total, 1^2,704. 

Expenditures for the Year's Work — Paid on last year's deficit, $235; 
on the year's work for salaries of secretary and assistant, bath room, 
gymnasium, printing, stationery, etc., $2,481. The resident secretary 
is Charles H. Wilson. 

CHURCHES OF COLORED PEOPLE. 

Morgan Street Baptist Church, brick, 40x50 feet; seating capac- 
ity, 500; stove heat, lamp light; value, $3,000; membership, 100; Sun- 
day school scholars, 150; teachers, 5; annual expenitures, $1,000. 

Taylor Chapel Methodist Episcoapal Church, brick, 50x60 feet; 
stove heat, lamp light; value, $2,500; membership, 345; Sunday school 
scholars, 125; teachers, 7; annual expenditures, $1,000. 

Dixon Chapel Methodist Episcopal Church, frame building, 60x36 
feet; stove heat, lamp light; seating capacity, 500; value, $1,800; mem- 
bership, 60; Sunday school scholars, 25; teachers 3: annual expendi- 
ture, $600. 

African Methodist Episcopal church, frame building, 30x30 feet 

capacity, 250; value, $500; membership, ; Sundayschool pupils 

; teachers, ; annual expenditures, $500. 

North Sedalia Methodist Episcopal Church, rents room; member- 
ship, 30; irregular Sunday school; annual expenditures, $300. 

The Free Will Baptists have a small congregation, and regular 
services, but no church building. 

Total value of church property, including organs, new sidewalks, 
and other minor matters, not included in values of edifices, $300 000 
Average annual expenditures; 1^50,000. 

THE PRESS. 

The Sedalia daily and weekly newspapers, in the field which they 
are required to cover, have been for the past 17 years, and now are, 
abreast of the times; and in some respects ahead of the city. They 
have and still stand as high in the ranks of journalism as the city has 
stood in material, moral and intellectual elevation among the other 
cities of the state. The late lamented Major John N. Edwards 
(whom the venerable and veteran editor, Chas. A. Dana, of the New 
York Snn, pronounced the second in rank among American editorial 
writers) "set the pace" for Sedalia journals and journalists years ago. 
With one or two exceptions, the people of Sedalia have never permit- 
ted their newspaper men to go at any slower gait. 

The oldest existing daily paper in the city is the Sedalia "Evening 
Democrat," being, after a short interval of innocuous desuetude on 
the part of the "Morning Democrat," a successor to that paper. 
The capital stock is ;^io,OOo, but the value of the plant, goodwill and 
circulation is estimated at $20,000. The paper employes 24 persons 



who support lO families; and the monthly pay roll amounts to $850. 
P. B. Stratton is editor; Dr. W. N. Graham, president and business 
manager; Ed. B- Burrowes, a veteran and thoroughbred newsman, is 
city editor. The "Evening Democrat" is stalwart Democratic but 
favors free silver. 

The "Daily Capital" is a morning paper with associated press dis- 
patches and was only started six months ago. Since its advent it has 
absorbed the "Daily Morning Gazette" and its patronage and clientele. 
Gen'l. Jno. S. Rice, a veteran of many years journalistic service and a 
vigorous writer, is editor and general manager, Messrs. T. T. Clifford 
and T. H. Rice are business managers; W. S. Allen, city editor. 
The plant, good will, etc., etc. are valued at ^20,000. 33 persons are 
employed and 12 families supported by the paper. The monthly pay 
roll is about $1,700. 

Both papers have large weekly editions. 

The daily "Star-Sentinel," evening and the "Enterprise-Sentinel", 
weekly, are published by the Enterprise-Sentinel Publishing Co; Van 
B. Wisker, editor; A. L. Wisker, manager. In connection with the 
papers the company also conducts a large job printing department 
with one power press and three jobbers and a stereotyping apparatus. 
The plant is valued at $24,000, and 28 persons are employed. The 
monthly pay roll amounts to $1,100. Both papers are republican in 
politics. 

The weekly "Bazoo" is the oldest existing paper in the city, having 
been established in 1868 by J. West Goodwin its present editor and 
manager. For nearly 27 years the "Bazoo" had a daily issue which 
was only recently discontinued. The plant, which includes a lob de- 
partment with two power and three job presses is valued at $30,000 
and 15 persons are employed. The monthly pay roll amounts to 
about $500. 

The "Sedalia Journal," German Weekly, is now in the nineteenth 
year of its successful publication and stands in the front .rank with the 
German and Eeglish Weekles in the State. The value of the plant is 
$2,000 which includes a power press. Chas Botz is editor and August 
Schneider, who has been identified with the Journal from the start, is 
business manager. These two gentlemen own the paper. There are 
four persons employed. It has a large and well established circulation. 

"Rosa Pearle's Paper," a neat eight page society paper, is owned 
and edited by Miss Lizzie Dugan assisted by her niece. Miss AUie Dugan 
who is a practical printer and foreman. Rosa Pearle has a deservedly 
high reputation as an "all-around" newspaper writer and a writer of 
charming verse. The plant is valued at $600. This is the only paper 
in the city edited and published by women and its many excellencies 
has won it popularity and liberal support. 



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In addition to these are the following publications: The Central 
School Journal, 26 pages, 7x10 inches, published twice a month and 
printed by the Enterprise-Sentinel Publishing Co.; the Tribe of Joseph 
Herald, 8 pages, 8x12 inches, monthly. The Musical Monthly pub- 
lished and printed by A. W. Perry & Son., a very neat journal. The 
Lutheran, the organ of the Trinity Lutheran church; The Sedalia 
Times, a weekly paper published in the interests of the colored race; 
The Christian, a monthly, published in tne interests of the Christian 
church; the Harmony Baptist, a five-column folio, published monthly, 
and printed by the Enterprise-Sentinel Publishing Co. 

JOB PRINTERS. 

The Sedalia Printing Company has a large, complete, modern 
plant, including the best and latest styles of type, a very fine power 
job press and three smaller jobbers, metalic binder and all other 
necessary apparatus. The plant is valued at ^10,000. Fourteen per- 
sons are employed and the annual business amounts to about $20,000. 
W. F. Waller, a director of the Sedaiia Board of Trade, is manager. 
An electric motor runs the machinery. 

S. M. Hodges & Bro. have an excellent plant of type and presses 
valued at $2,500 and employ six persons. There special line is com- 
mercial work. Mr. Harry Bascom, a veteran newspaper man, is 
their able and popular representative on the outside. 

The Fisher Printing Company is estimated to be worth about 
$2,000 and six persons are engaged. 

THE BOARD OF TRADE. 

This body is regularly mcorporated under the laws of the State. 
At present it has a membership of 190, who are the leading business 
and professionsl men and capitalists of the city. The board has a regu- 
lar paid secretary, who devotes his entire time to the business of the 
Board. The members pay a monthly subscribtion of ^i each, and in 
addition to this, special subscriptions are received. The gross receipts 
for nine months, up to December i, 1895, were, $4,892.18. 

The following are the Board of Directors: 

R. H. Moses, president; J. C. Van Riper, vice-president; R. H. 
Gray, secretary; W. H. Powell, Jr., treasurer; John N. Dalby, J. H. 
Bothwell, E. G. Cassidy, Wm. Courtney, Z. F. Bailey, D. C. Metsker, 
J. C. McLaughlin, B. G. Wilkerson, W. F. Waller, S. C. Gold, and 
F. W. Shultz. 

THE POST OFFICE. 

Is a substantial modern building of pressed brick, two stories in 
height, with a full basement. Its dimensions are 60 by 75 feet,- The 
interior of the building is finished in hard wood and the corridors are 
laid in tesselated marble. The boxes and other fixtures are of the 
dlatest approve models and of the best material. The building is heat- 



ed thoroughout by steam. There are three large rooms not used by 
the post-office business, one being occupied by the deputy U. S. Col- 
lector and another by R. R. postal clerks; and the third, at present, by 
the Receiver of the First National Bank. The building cost $50,000. 
Besides the post master V. P. Hart, there are six office clerks and 
seven letter carriers. About 40 railway postal clerks, a number of whom 
run into this city, are also paid their salaries by Postmaster Hart, 
which amount annually in the aggregate to $42,000. The income of 
the office is $25,000 per annum and the annual expense $13,500. The 
number of pieces of mail handled annually is about 1,300,000; number 
of registered letters about 3,000, and the money order business about 
fi, 000, 000. The salary of the postmaster is $2,600 a year, and the 
annual allowance for the clerk's salaries $4,000 per annum, fireman 
and janitor $1,200 for both. The carriers are paid about $6,000 per 
annum. 

THE SEDALIA RIFLES. 
This Military organization has been in continued existence for over 
seventeen years and has three times been called out for service by the 
governor of the State. The regular membership about 65 rank and 
file. Captain Harry C. Demuth, ex-postmaster, has held his commis- 
sion as Captain since the organization of the company. It is one of 
the best drilled and disciplined militia companies in the state. 

THE CITY HOSPITAL. 

This institution, which was founded by the ladies of the city, owns 
a sudstantial two story brick building and grounds worth $7,500; and 
it will comfortably accommodate 25 patients. The building funds was 
collected, dollar by dollar, from our liberal and benevolently disposed 
citizens. It is an example of the parable of the mustard seed. The 
hospital is suported by the subscriptions of regular annual subscribers, 
special -subscriptions, proceeds of church and other entertainments; 
by regular monthly appropriation of $25 by the city council; by occas- 
sional appropriations by the County Court. It has never lacked for 
ample funds from its inception. This one fact shows the character of 
our people out of the lines of businesss. There is a regular paid matron 
and a male attendant. The Hospital is under the direct supervision of 
Dr. A. H. Heaton, City physical, who, through not required to do so 
by the law, gives his services voluntarily and takes, a personal as 
well as professional interest in the work. When special cases demand 
a consultation with the city physician any physician will give his ser- 
vices gladly and without remuneration. 

WOOD'S OPERA HOUSE. 

This is a complete modern play house in all its appointments, fix- 
tures and decorations and is valued at $75,000. Its general dimensions 
are 70x80 feet and is three tall stories in height. The stage is 40x70 



feet and the drop curtain a fine piece of artistic work. The seatinS 
capacity is 1,500. There is a spacious parquet and balcony, four large 
boxes and a gallery. The walls and ceiling are beautifully frescoed. 
There is a spacious foyer on the parquet and balcony floors, a large 
entrance ante chamber, and two front office rooms and ticket sellers 
box. The building is heated throughout by steam and lighted by 
electricity. There are two wide side exits in case of fire or panic. 
Theie are about three entertainments a week during the amusement 
season. 

Armory Hall, located in the third story Wood'sOperaHouse block, 
is the drill room of the Sedalia Rifles; used also as a dancing hall, and 
for other public entertainments. It will accommodate 12 quadrille 
setts and many spectators, and has a seaiting capacity of about 400. 

Smith's Hall has good stage and scenery, and a seating capacity of 
about 400. 

THE SEDALIA FREE LIBRARY. 

The Library and Free Reading Room, which was started some 
fifteen years ago, and, at first supported by private subscriptions, is now 
a city institution, sustained by a tax of one-half mill upon the dollar 
of the assessed value of property. 

This gives a permanent fund, at present, amounting to |i,8oo per 
annum. The library occupies four basement rooms in the beautiful 
county court house, rent free, the general dimensions of which are 
60x40 feet. The rooms are neatly and comfortably fitted up and fur- 
nished; and, as the court house grounds occupy a full square, covered 
with green sward and large trees, the rooms are delightfully located for 
their purpose. 

The library contains about 8,000 volumes of choice books, and is 
steadily increasing the number. It is one of the most pleasant and 
popular resorts in the city, and since it has been made a free library 
it has an average monthly patronage of about 3,000 persons, who take 
out books or read in the public room. Since the library became free, 
five months ago, tickets to regular reads to the number of 1,003 have 
been issued. A regular paid librarian is employed, the present incum- 
bent being Mr. Thos. Seddon, a gentleman peculiarly well fitted for the 
work, who performs his duties in a manner most satisfactory to the 
patroiis and directory. It is the belief of all intelligent persons who 
have watched the good influence of this institution from its start, that 
if its moral and intellectual benefits are to be estimated in dollars ai.d 
cents, it has returned an hundred-fold for every penn). ever expended 
upon it. 

QUEEN CITY ATHLETIC CLUB. 

This association is in a manner a continuation of the old Turners' 
Society and the Sedalia Gymnasium, The club occupies a building, 
formerly a church, which is 40x65 feet in dimensions; and is fitted up 



with all the apparatus and paraphernalia usually found in a first class 
gymnasium. There are at present about 95 regular members, two of 
the best acting as regulars instructors and trainers; Regular meetings 
are held twice a week, and freqnenj public exhibitions are given which 
are popular and well attended. The officers are: President' John 
Fisher; Vice President, Wm. Teufel; Secretary' Heury Blatterman; 
Treasurer, Henry Ripkin; Instructor, Edward Bauer. 

BANDS. 

The Sedalia Military Band is a full brass and reed band which has 
been long in existence; has superior training and produces music of 
a high order. Chas. Hartenback is leader and instructor. The band 
has 18 members all supplied with the very best instruments and hand- 
some uniforms. In connection with it there is an orchestra of 14 
pieces of which Prof. L. E. Friemel, a musician of ability, long experi- 
ence and fine training capacity, is leader. This organization furnishes 
music for public balls and private parties. 

The Independent Band is a full brass band, recently organized, 
and is a good one. It Las 12 members and. is under the leadership of 
■^ H. H. Kroencke. Its members are well trained and advancing rapidly 
in the production of good music. 

SICHER'S PARK. 

Is located about half a mile west of the business center of the city 
and contains about 45 acres. A handsome hotel building with a spac- 
ious ball room is on the grounds. Also the Fair Association buildings 
consisting of a grand stand with seats for iO:000 spectators, a large 
Textile and Machinery half. About ten acres of the grounds, around 
the hotel building are covered with an abundance of fine trees, trellised 
arbors and beds of flowers. A lake containing about four acres, em- 
bowered in water willows furnishes good boating, fishing and skating. 
The electric car line runs to the door of the hotel. There is also a 
base ball ground and stand. This is a great resort for all sorts of out- 
door amusement. 

THE MELITA CLUB. 

This is a purely social organization containing in its membership 
a number of the most intelligent and cultured gentlemen, young and 
old, of the city. There are seventy-five members. The club is at home 
in a neat cottage of four rooms, including billiard, bath and whist 
room. The initiation fee is $5.00, and monthly dues I12.00 per year. 
BUSINESS BUILDINGS AND BLOCKS. 

The following are some of the best buildings: 

The Court House, two stories and basement. 90x130 feet, white 
sandstone. Contract cost, $100,000; value, with square. ^150,000. 

(See cut. ) 

The County Jail, brick, with steel cells for 40 prisoners; dimen- 
sions, 40x100 feet; value, $15,000. 



The Royal Tribe of Joseph building, four-story brick, stone and 
terra cotta, (see cut) 50x150 feet., and 90 to top of tower; steam heat; 
gas, electric light and elevator. Value, $75,000. 

F. E. Hoffman building, five stories and basement, brick and 
stone, 50x90 feet, and hight 90 feet; elevator, steam heat, gas and elec- 
tricity; value, $100,000. (See cut.) 

Ilgenfritz building, brick and iron, three stories, 117x84 feet; steam 
heat, gas, electricity; value, ;^5o,ooo. (See cut.) 

J. W, Murphy building, three stories and basement, brick, 142 
feet front, 24 feet wide; steam heat, gas, and electric light; value, 
$35,000. 

Missouri Trust Company building, Warrensburg sandtsone out- 
side, brick inside; 120 feet front, 30 feet deep, three stories and base- 
ment; marble floors, beautiful frescoes, expensive fixtures, large vault, 
elevator; steam heat, gas and electric light; value, $43,000. 

O'Mara building, Warrensburg stone front, three stories, 50 feet 
front, 100 deep; elevator, gas, electric light; value, $35,000. 

McLaughlin Brothers' building, three-story brick, 60 feet front, 
108 feet deep; elevator, steam heat, gas, electric light; value, $40,000- 
(See cut.) 

S. C. Gold building, cream-colored stone front, brick, three stories 
high, 93 feet front, 120 deep; gas, electric light, broad stairways and 
halls, elevator; value, $40,000. (See cut.) 

Wood's Opera House block, brick, stone and iron, three stories 
high, 125x100 feet. Opera House, with all modern improvements, seats 
1,500, stage 70x45; steam heat and electric light; value, $175,000. 
(See cut.) 

Wood, and Mertz & Hale block, three-story brick, 130x90 feet; 
value 175,000. 

Smith & Cotton building, ornamental stone front, brick, three 
stories; steam heat, gas, electricity; value, $28,000. 

James Glass building, Ohio street, two-story brick, 50x90 feet; 
gas and electric light; value, $30,000. 

F. B. Meyer & Brother building, iwo-story brick, ornamental front, 
50x90 feet; hot air furnaces, gas and electric light; value, $3o,ooo. 

Y. M. C. A. building, H. H. Marean owner, two and three stories, 
brick and stone, 50x90 feet; steam heat, gas and electric light; value, 
120,000. 

Latour building, two story brick, 75x100 feet; gas and electric light; 
value, $25,000. 

J. M. Offield building, three-story brick, 75x55 feet; gas and elec- 
tric light; value, $20,000. (See cut. ) 

D. H. Smith (old) building, 100x50 feet, three-story brick; value, 
$20,000. (See cut.) 



"Katy" building, E. G. Cassidy, three-stories, 6oxiio feet; orna- 
mental stone and galvanized iron front, brick and iron; steam heat, gas 
and electricity; value, $35,000. 

Marean building, 30x90 feet, three-sto;y brick, opposite court 
house; gas. electricty; value, |;2o,ooo. 




MISSOURI TRUST CO. BUILDING. (Value. $43,000 ) 

Glass building, Lamine street, 30x90 feet, three-story brick, with 
ornamental outside of sandstone; steam heat, gas, electric light; value, 
$20,000. (See cut.) 

Equitable building, 30x75 feet, two stories and basement, brick; gas 
and electric light; value, $15,000. 



Cassidy building, South Ohio, three-stories, 40x90 feet, Warrens- 
burg sandstone front, brick; steam heat, gas and electricity; value, 
$50,000. (See cut, where figures should be as above.) 

The Alamo building, 40 feet deep, 125 feet front, two story brick, 
steam heat, gas, electricity; sold recently for $25,000. 

HOTELS. 

Sicher's Hotel, three-story brick, 168x58 feet; guest rooms, 55; 
dining room seats 100; public room 60x60 feet, marble floors, 2 parlors 
20x30 feet, bar-room 30x35 feet, large sample room, billiard room 25x60 
feet; steam heat, gas, electric light and bells; number employes, 39; 
value, $75,000. 

Hotel Kaiser, 120x88 feet, three-story brick, built especially for hotel 
purposes; guest rooms, 52; 2 parlors 25x18, large public room and 
sample room; dming, ropm 60x60 feet; steam heat, gas and electric 
light and bells; number of employes, 35, Value, ^50,000. 

Le Grand Hotel, 80x45 feet with wide halls, three story brick; 
frame annex 30x30, one story; large sample room, bar room, public 
room; guest chambers, 30; value, $25,000. (See cut.) 

Union Hotel, 50x50; two story frame; guest chambers, 20; dining 
room seats 30; value, $7,000. 

Hotel Riley, 30x90, two and three story brick; guest chambers, 30; 
dining room seats 35; barroom apart, office; number of employes, 10; 
value, $15,000. 

Pacific House, 40x40 feet, two story frame, accommodates 15 
guests. Value, $2,500. 

Citj' Hotel, 125x36 feet, two story brick, dining room 35x35 feet; 
guestrooms, 35; value, $10,000. 

These hotels can easily accommodate in case of a great influx of 
visitors, 700 persons. In addition to this there are comfortably furn- 
ished rooms in no less than seven large brick buildings which will 
acccmmodate 500 more; and there are ten excellent restaurants to 

serve meals. 

Total value of buildings and blocks mentioned above, $1,225,500. 

Experts and owners agree that these values are about right. 

GRAIN ELEVATOR. 

The S. T. Lupa Elevator is valued at $15,003, and has a capacity of 
50,000 bushels of grain. Its dimensions are: Length 140 feet, width 
50, height 65 feet. A ten-horse-power engine runs the lifting appa- 
ratus. 

NURSERIES AND FLORISTS. 

Philip Pfeiffer, nurseryman and florist, has 4 acres in trees, .and a 
hot house, covered by 1,500 square feet of glass. The property is val- 
ued at $10,000. He employs four men. 

Charles Koeppen has a flower garden, hot beds and house in the 
suburbs, and a hot house and sales room in the eit3^ The city house 



has an area of i,000 square feet of glass, and the suburban 800 square 
feet. This property, with two acres of ground, is valued at ^7,000. 
Five persons are engaged. 

The Queen City Green House proprietor has an of acre ground in 
the city, with hot beds for flowers, shrubs and plants. The hot house is 
healed by steam; is furnished with all other modern appliances and fixt- 
ures, and has a glass roof area of 15,000 square feet. Four men are 
employed, and the plant is valued at $15,000. 

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS. 

The McAllister Springs, fifteen miles north of Sedalia, in Pettis 
County, and three miles from Houstonia, and the Lexington branch of 
the Misouri Pacific Railroad, have a practically inexhaustible supply of 
salt sulphur water, called Akesion water. The testimony of hundreds 
who have used the water for years, is that this water, in small quanti- 
ties, is a fine, sure and gentle aperient, and as strong and certain pur- 
gative, in large quantities, as there is in the world. As a bath it is equal 
to sea water. There is a comfortable, well conducted hotel at the 
springs, which is surrounded by a beautiful woodland, open during the 
summer season. The water is also bottled and shipped and widely 

sold. 

The Sedalia Ice Manufacturing Company has a capacity of 50,000 

lbs. per day, from boiled and distilled water. 

Under this head it is interesting to note that Leslie, T. Anderson, 
the first agent in Sedalia of the United States Express Company, in 
1 861, is now a resident of this city. He took service with the company 
in 1857. It was in March, 1861, that the Missouri Pacific Railroad 
reached Sedalia. Mr. A. it still a vigorous man, and on the spot where 
his office stood, amidst the tall prairie grass, 34 years ago, he can now 
see a $35,000 brick depot, and from it cast his eye on the dome of a 
$100,000 court house. 

BUILDINGS OF 1895. 

This season some buildings, which deserve especial mantion, 
have been erected. Among them is the "Katy" building, E. G. Cas- 
sidy owner. This building is in the heart of the "retail district," and 
its rapid construction shows how Sedalia business men — to use the 
common slang of the day— "get a move on themselves." The old 
buildings were reduced to ashes about the middle of July, 1895. On 
February i, 1896, at the latest, the new building will be ready for oc- 
cupancy. The three stores were all leased before Christmas, 1895. A 
description is given elesewhere, but it is too brief. This is a strictly 
modern building. The facade is a gem of architectural beauty, for a 
business building. The division walls, on the ground f^oor, are of terra 
cotta tiles, the ceilings curved and of metalic lathing. The lower front 
will be almost completely of glass. There are fourteen large, well- 



lighted, perfectly ventilated rooms on the second floor, broad halls 
and toilet rooms. On the third floor there is a single hall, with re- 
tiring and office rooms. These two stories have been leased to the 
Hotel Sicher, will be handsomely fitted up for hotel purposes, and di- 
rectly connected with the main building. 

James Glass had his handsome residence remodeled at an expense 
of about $8,000, which makes it one of the most attractive in appear- 
ance and convenience of the many fine homes in the city. 

Edward Hurley had erected a fine, substantial residence, at a cost 
of ^16,000. 

E. G. Cassidy's residence,, which, with its surroundings, will cost 
not less than $20,000, is a model of architectural beauty, .and the in- 
terior is as fine as the outside. It was the desire of the compiler to 
present a cut of this fine mansion, but it was impossible to secure it in 
time for presentation. 

The cut of the M. K. & T. passenger depot, which is 201 feet in 
length, gives a very poor impression of that fine building, which, with its 
surroundings, will cost, probably $40,000, instead of ^30,000, the origi- 
nal contract price. 

LATE INFORMATION. 

Several weeks ago Gov. Stone appointed architects Bell of Ful- 
ton, Mo., and Itner, of St. Louis, to make a careful examination of 
the State buildings at Jefferson City and report to him what would be 
a correct estimate of the cost of replacing these buildings by new ones. 
These two gentlemen stand high in their profession and after careful 
cosideration of the subject their report was submitted to Governor 
Stone on Dec. 11, 1895. The report shows the aggregate value of the 
buildings to be. $660, 226, distributed as follows: 

Cost of duplicating capitol building, $505,000. Cost of armory 
building, $23,500. Cost of supreme court and library building, $71,- 
521. Cost of governor's mansion, $60,205. 

In connection with the report the architects state that in estima- 
ting the actual present value of the buildings from 10 to 15 per cent 
should be deducted from the above figures for useless material and de- 
preciation. 

Upon the receipt of the report the governor took it under advise- 
ment and ultimately gave his official decision, that he would require from 
Sedalia a Guarantee Bond of $603,000 for the erection of the state 
buildings in this city. 

The Sedalia "Board of Control" of the capital removal already 
have a Guarantee Bond of $500,000 which is in reality signed by own- 
ers of property worth $i,oo0,OOO. In addition to this, first class archi- 
tects and contractors have submitted plans for a capitol building in 
Sedalia, far superior to the present building, which they will erect for 
$450,000. 



Copyright, 1895, by I. McDonald Demuth. 



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